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Organize Tags Chapter 2
Tag Documentation
The table outlines the four types of tags that can be created and the
descriptions that you can document for each one.
Language Switching
With RSLogix 5000 software, version 17 and later, you have the option to
display project documentation, such as tag descriptions and rung comments
for any supported localized language. You can store project documentation for
multiple languages in a single project file rather than in language-specific
project files. You define all the localized languages that the project will support
and set the current, default, and optional custom localized language. The
software uses the default language if the current language's content is blank for
a particular component of the project. However, you can use a custom
language to tailor documentation to a specific type of project file user.
RSLogix 5000 programming software automatically assigns
what are called pass-through descriptions of the tags you have
created, descriptions you may or may not want to use.
Tag Description
Base When you create a tag without specifying a
tag type, RSLogix 5000 automatically
assigns your tag a default type of Base.
Since base tags enable you to create your
own internal data storage, you can
document in your tag description the nature
of the data being stored.
Alias By creating an Alias tag, you can assign
your own name to an existing tag, structure
tag member, or bit. In the description of your
Alias tag, you can describe the tag that your
alias tag references.
Produced A Produced tag refers to a tag that is
consumed by another controller. In the
description of your Produced tag, you can
describe the remote controllers that you
want to make your Produced tag available
through controller-to-controller messaging.
Consumed A Consumed tag refers to a tag that is
produced by another controller and whose
data you want to use in your controller. In
the description of your Consumed tag, you
can describe how you want to use a
produced tag’s data or the data-producing
controller.
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