Exporting and importing tag dictionaries

The Tag Dictionary Manager view provides a method to import and export tag dictionaries (or smart tag dictionaries) in a standard CSV file format, compatible with Excel (or other CSV-compatible spreadsheet software). This facilitates creating custom tag dictionaries, which you then import to your station. Working in the exported CSV file, you can easily edit the correctly structured tag dictionary, populating it with your custom tag definitions, tag rules, etc. When finished, save the revised CSV file and import it using the Tag Dictionary Manager view.

Use case

It may suit your purposes to create a custom tag dictionary (or dictionaries) for a specific customer, for an OEM, or for a specific application. You may use a custom tag dictionary as you would other tag dictionaries, to apply tags to objects, create hierarchy definitions, as well as search the station for tagged objects.

NOTE: By default, the license for the Tag Dictionary Service limits the number of tag dictionaries available for the system to the first two. Any dictionaries added above the limit for the license will be in fault and unusable. However, the Dictionary.limit attribute on the license is configurable in the same manner as are device limits.

Exporting and importing tag dictionaries

Use case

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