Adding a Tag Group to a component
Adding a Tag Group allows you add a predefined collection of tags to a component in a single action. Typically, tags are in
a tag group because it is common for each of the tags to be assigned to the same component. The Device Manager and Point Manager views of a driver, and the Edit Tags dialog are the primary methods for adding a tag group to a component. This procedure describes how to use the Edit Tags dialog to add a tag group.
Prerequisites:
- One or more installed tag dictionaries. If necessary, add required tag dictionaries to the TagDictionaryService.
NOTE: If tagging offline, it is possible that no dictionaries are available. In that situation the system searches for tag dictionaries in alternate locations.
Perform the following steps:
- Right-click on the component that you want to tag and select Edit Tags from the popup menu.
- In the Edit Tags dialog box, select a dictionary from the option list in the top left corner
. The top half of the dialog box shows a list of individual tags available from the selected dictionary. - Scroll down to see the list tag groups in the dictionary.TIP: To limit the number of tags displayed, use the Search and the Filter fields as needed.
- To assign the selected collection of tags, select the desired tag group and click Add Tag.The assigned tag group displays as an Ord on the Direct Tags tab (lower half).
- To save the added tag assignments. click Save.
Once you save the added tag assignments, the set of tags in the tag group are implied tags on the component.