Property Description
Name Unique tag name at project level. Primary key to identify information in the runtime tag database.
WARNING: Duplicate tag names are not allowed.
Groups Group names associated to a tag
Driver Communication protocol
Address Controller memory address.
To edit click on the right side of the column to get the dialog box where you can enter the address
information.
Encoding Encoding type for string data type (UTF-8, Latin1, UTF-2 and UTF-16)
Comment Tag description
Simulator Tag behavior during simulation. Several profiles are available.
Scaling Conversion applied to tag before database storage.
By formula = defined as a linear transformation.
By range = defined as a range conversion.
The below properties will be visible only after select the “Show Advance Columns” mode from the tag editor tollbar..
Property Description
PLC
Tag
Name
Original PLC tag name, used to match tags used by HMI application (Tag Name) and tags exported from PLC
R/W only in advanced view to allow for adjustments in case tag import errors.
Rate
(ms)
Tag refresh time. Default: 500ms.
WARNING: Tags refresh rate is the maximum refresh rate. Actual refresh rate depends on:
communication type (serial, fieldbus, Ethernet), protocol, amount of data exchanged.
R/W R/W tag attribute (R/W, R or W).
Note: The content of Write Only tags is always written and never read. When communication is not
active, the content of these tags may not be available in widgets.
Active Update mode.
false = tags are read from controller only when required by the HMI device.
true = tags are continuously read even if not required by the displayed page.
Important: Leave this value set to false for higher communication performance.
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