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Chapter 3 Tag Configuration
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How Do You Launch Server Configuration
Utilities from the Tag Configuration Editor?
When you register a server in your system, BridgeVIEW registers
the location of its configuration utility, if it exists. You can access
the server configuration utilities from the Servers menu of the Tag
Configuration Editor.
Note
When you update the server registry while the Tag Configuration Editor is
running, select Servers»Refresh to prompt the Tag Configuration Editor to
read the updated information.
How Do You Access or Change Tag
Configuration Information in Your Application?
BridgeVIEW allows you read/write access of tag configuration
information to use in your application. This is often helpful when
displaying engineering units, scales, and other information about the tag
or changing a tag from
Offscan
to
Onscan
. The Tag Attributes VIs obtain
and determine this information. The Tag Attributes VIs are listed below.
• Get Tag Attribute
• Set Tag Attributes
• Set Multiple Tag Attributes
• Get Tag Description Group
• Get Tag I/O Connection Info
• Get Tag Logging Info
• Get Tag Range and Units
• Get Tag Alarm Enabled
• Get Analog Tag Alarm Limit
• Get Discrete Tag Alarm Setting
• Get Bit Array Tag Alarm Setting
• Get Tag Bad Status Alarm
More information and an activity that use the Tag Attributes VIs can be
found in the
Tag Attributes VIs section of Chapter 7, Advanced Application
Topics . For complete information about these, and other VIs, see
Appendix A, HMI Function Reference .