Setting up custom tags

Select to begin adding a new tag.

Select to begin adding a new tag that is based on an existing custom tag. For example, you might want to change metadata for another custom tag.

Select to edit the attributes of an existing tag.

Select to delete a tag (tag cannot be associated with a device type).

From the drop-down menu, select the tag you want to create from, edit or delete.

Live only when Delete Existing is selected. Select to delete the tag. You can only delete custom tags not associated with a device type.

Live only when in Edit mode. Select to list device types that are associated with this custom tag. Note the device types so that you can delete the tag from them (in the Add/Edit Device Type screen) before you delete the tag.

See Delete a custom tag for instructions on using this button.

Maximum 32 characters; can include any alpha or numeric character, as well underscore (_) and backslash (\). Must begin with either an alpha character of underscore.

You can use this field for additional information on the Add/Edit Custom Tags screen. For example, you could describe the data that it logs. It does not display anywhere else in the system.

Includes all the real-time groups (such as 100ms, controls, currents) plus onboard alarms, resets, and controls.

These are Power Operation tag data types. They affect the logic codes that are available for display in the Edit Address screen. See About logic codes for the data type that matches each logic code.

These are the base engineering units for tags; the values come from Engineering Unit Setup.

Causes reporting to be according to the base unit, rather than the conversion that was chosen for this tag in the template that is being used.

Provides a quicker means of adding an engineering unit that had been overlooked.

This is used for display purposes in Power Operation graphics pages. It determines where the decimal displays.

Choose the reporting format, to be used in Power Operation, from ## to #0.#####. For example, if you select #.##, the number 8.12579 would be displayed as 8.12.

Indicates the level of priority Power Operation uses when reading data from devices.

NOTE: In the address field, a priority of 1 = High, 2 = Medium, 3 = Low.

This text displays on the Create Device Profiles tab for the onboard alarm tag, when it is selected for the device type in the profile. It also displays in the Alarm Log.

Displays several additional filter options on the two “Filter” tabs. These options will be useful in the future for reporting purposes.

You can include additional filters for either real time filters or alarm filters.  Though not currently used, these filters will provide metadata for later reporting. Standard tags have some of these filters selected.

A typical usage for these filters might be: when creating a custom tag from an already existing standard tag, you can create matching metadata by using the filters that have been built in to the standard tag.

Real Time Filters tab (dropdown lists are expanded when “Display ‘Advanced’ filter selections” is checked)

This field provides metadata about the tag. It will be used in future reports.

Metadata for future use in reporting.

Metadata for future use in statistical reporting.

Metadata for future use in statistical reporting.

Alarm Filters tab (dropdown lists are expanded when “Display ‘Advanced’ filter selections” is checked)

Used for filtering and sorting alarm data, and metadata for future use in statistical reporting.

Used for filtering and sorting alarm data, and metadata for future use in statistical reporting.

Used for filtering and sorting alarm data, and metadata for future use in statistical reporting.

Used for filtering and sorting alarm data, and metadata for future use in statistical reporting.