Document change log

April 10, 2024

Added new “NotRule” to “Tag Rule components” topic ( Niagara 4.14).

October 5, 2023

Added new “Brick tag dictionary” and “Updating Brick tag dictionary” topics (as of Niagara 4.14).

Added “tagdictionary-SmartTagDictionary” component (as of Niagara 4.14).

October 4, 2022

Added new “ H4TagDictionary” topic to the “Haystack smart tag dictionary” chapter.

July 19, 2022

Added new topic “ Tag Manager” to the “Tagging Reference” chapter.

April 26, 2022

In the “Tag Dictionary Manager” view, added that the list of tag dictionaries displays version information and the New button limits the creation of a new tag dictionary to a “smart tag dictionary”.

November 2, 2020

Added information on the HTML-5 Tag Manager view.
To support online help, updated ID values on “Rules” and “Tag Rule Component” topics and combined the child component details in the “Tag Rule Component” topic.

February 4, 2020

Edited the “TagDictionaryService” component topic to add information on several new properties related to tag-based NEQL Ords functionality (in Niagara 4.9 and later).

August 6, 2019

Edited Haystack component topics to add information on changes in Haystack tag dictionary import functionality (in Niagara 4.4U3, Niagara 4.7U1, Niagara 4.8 and later), and changes in the components provided in the palette.

May 23, 2019

Edited the component topics, “tagdictionary-HasAncestor” and “tagdictionary-HasRelation”, to provide additional details.
In the Tagging Reference chapter, added separate component topics for “haystack-EquipRelation” and “haystack-SiteRelation” to support online help.

November 30, 2018

Added several procedures on working with Haystack tagdictionary import files.
Edited the component topics, “tagdictionary-TagDictionaryService” and “tagdictionary-ScopedTag”, added information on SingletonTagInfoList frozen properties and usage examples of same to the “tagdictionary-ScopedTags” topic.
Added the component topic, “haystack-HsTagDictionary” and reference topics, “Haystack Tags Import File format” and “Haystack Equip Import File format”.
Edited the “Tag Dictionary Manager” view topic.

Updated: March 26, 2018

Updated for functional changes in Niagara 4.6:

Added note to the “tagdictionary-TagDictionaryService” topic describing two new smart tag dictionaries which can be used to exclude portions of the station from the system indexing process.
Added component topics, “tagdictionary-SystemIndex” and “tagdictionary-scopedTag”.

Updated: October 24, 2017

Updated for functional changes in Niagara 4.4:

Many changes throughout, all to do with the removal of the TagDictionary component and the frozen slot on the TagDictionaryService named Monitor (and related functionality) from the tagdictionary module.
Removed the following component topics from this guide: “tagdictionary-TagDictionary” and “tagdictionary-TagGroupMonitor”.

Updated: August 30, 2017

In the topics, “Tag Rule Index” and “Implied Tags Index,” there are added notes clarifying the type of memory used, and type of tags that may be indexed.”
This update includes many structural changes throughout the “Tagging Reference” section.
In the “Tagging components” section of this guide, added several new component topics.

Updated: January 12, 2017

Updated for Niagara 4.3:

Edited the topic, “About the Tag Dictionary Service”, added content describing the new Tag Rule Index feature .
Edited the topic, “Tag Rules”, added a section describing the new functionality in tag rules, includes new topics on the “Tag Rule Index”, “Implied Tags Index”, and “Scoped Tag Rule” features.
Added glossary entries on these features.

Updated: November 3, 2016

Edited the topic, “Creating a custom tag group”, to provide information on best practices in tag group naming.
Edited “Tag Definitions” topic to provide Tag component property descriptions.
Edited the “Tag Group Definitions” topic to add section on tag group handling when editing tags from within various views.

Updated: July 26, 2016

Added the procedure, “Creating a custom tag group”.

Updated: July 14, 2016

Added information on changes for Niagara 4.2, which include the following:

Incorporated minor changes throughout to support branding.
In the “Tag Rules” topic, added new information on TagRules in the tagdictionary palette.

Updated: November 29, 2015

Added information on changes supporting the Tag Dictionary Service functionality for Niagara 4.1. The following topics have been modified as described.

Creating a tagged device: edited content in steps 4 and 5. Results info explains that tags in added tag groups are replaced with an implied relation.
“Editing tags in a template”, added note to step 5.
“About the Edit Tags dialog”, deleted duplicate content in 2nd paragraph and added note at end that describes changed handling of tags in tag groups.
“Tag Definitions”, added note that about data policy in tag definitions.
“Tag Group Definitions”, added content that describes changed handling of tags in tag groups, data policies, and other instances.
The following topics have been added to this guide: “Adding a Tag Group to a component”, “Adding a tag to an existing Tag Group”, “Data Policies”, “Tag Group Monitor”.