Section 3 Engineering and Configuration Configuring Using Vtrin
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For more information on the available fields in General tab, refer Table 1.
Table 1. General Tab - Available Fields
Field name Description
Proposed Name The name of the tag that is required in the database. This is a
mandatory field.
Description Description of the Tag. This is an optional field. By default, the
Description field will be blank.
Type Data type of the Tag. This is a mandatory field. By default, the data
type will be Float or Real. Various options such as Float, Binary, Int,
String are included in this field.
Data Flow Direction Defines the direction of the data flow. This is a mandatory field. The
options are [in] and [Out]. By default, the value [in] is selected. If [in] is
selected, the Tag will be read-only. Select [out] to make the tag Read-
Write enabled.
Display Format Defines the format of the tag display. This becomes a mandatory field
when the Type field is selected as Float. If a Float tag type is defines,
then the Display Format is used to define the no. of digits after the
decimal point, Ex. 0.0, 0.00, 0.000.
Unit Engineering unit of the tag. This is an optional field. By default, the
value for this field will be blank.
Equipment Path This enables the user to group tags of similar category, area
etc.Though this is not a mandatory field, it is recommended to define
this. By default, the value for this field is none. Example for Equipment
Path definition are Path1.Path2.Path3.
Creator This field denotes the name of the source of the tag. The user can
mention the node type (like History Server or DCN etc.) manually.This
is an optional field. The default value is blank.
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