Working with Tables and Tags

Creating Tables and Tags by copying and pasting

You can quickly create tags, tables and RTUs by copying and pasting from similar items. Reconfigure any links to sites after a tag has been created.

Viewing tag details

Use the Data Sources module to view the following details of tables and tags:

• Viewing Alarm History for a Tag
• Viewing and Managing Tag History

Configuring Tables

• Configure the scan rate for a table to control how frequently it is read.
• Create new rows and columns for a table.

Creating a custom tag

Create custom tags for storing calculated data in the site's SYSTEM table which is only stored in the database.

These are the steps required to create and configure a new custom tag in the SYSTEM table:

• Create the new tag.
• Configure tag events to control how tag data is stored and displayed.
• Configure tag alarm values to specify what tag values are within the normal range, and which should trigger an alarm.
• (Optional) Set any scaling properties for the tag value.
• (Optional) Create a tag expression for a calculated tag.
• (Optional) Specify settings for an accumulator tag.
• (Optional) Set up rating tables to calculate tag values.
• (Optional) Set up a data transfer to read data from one database and store it in another.

Help for SPM, version 3.4. Topic updated: 30 May 2018. Help published: 14 June 2019