Tags

Pages 63 to 114 in your workbook

Tag Browser

• Review of the communication chain• Polling Driver concepts• Tag Browser in detail– Filtering– The tag tree & navigation– Tools for creating & managing tags

• New Tags– The ID & I/O tabs: standard features– Exercise 6-1

Update Type

• What the command does• When to use it• When not to use it

Context Tags

• Benefits of a hierarchical structure• Uses for a Context tag– Exercise 6-2– Exercise 6-3

Analog Input

• Analog Input versus Analog Status• I/O configuration• Scaling• Preview of other configuration options– Exercise 6-4

Link Widgets to Tags

• Review: Unlinked widget indicator• Color Fill– Configuration properties

• Other bar type widgets• Linking to a tag– Exercises 6-5 through 6-10

Questionable Data

• Why there is a ? blinking on the widget• How to turn it off• Manual data and the !

Snapshot Expressions

• The expression editor• Expression syntax

2 + 2..\PropertyName

• Adding properties to Context tags• Recognize a snapshot field: blue shading– Exercise 6-11– Exercise 6-12

Automated Properties

• Use a tag as the data source for a widget property– Exercise 6-13– Exercise 6-14

• Extra topic: Text formatting & Text Fonts

Export Tags

• The Export page of Application Configuration• Format choices• What to expect in the output file• How to add, edit, delete• Synchronizing

Analog Output

• Output options in Input tags• Analog Output versus Analog Control• Configuration options• Uses of the Data Source field• Widgets for operator controls– Exercises 6-15 to 6-17

Digital Input

• Digital Input versus Digital Status• Configuration options• Pump Status• Indicator Widgets• The System Style tag– Configuration– Default usage by tags and widgets

Digital Output

• Digital Output versus Digital Control• Configuration options• Widgets for digital control– Exercise 6-18

• Optional topic: Selector Switches

From Context to Type

• Turning a Context tag into a new type• Advantages– Equipment with many I/O addresses is now one

tag– Can be updated at any time, updating all– Automated configuration with snapshots– Later, will create complex widgets for use by

custom types– Exercise 6-19 through 6-23