National Instruments BridgeVIEW User Manual
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Chapter 4
Human Machine Interface
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The tag data type imports tag and tag group names from a tag configuration
file (
.scf
). When you launch BridgeVIEW, the tag data type list of
available tag names and tag group names is automatically updated from
your default
.scf
file. The default
.scf
file is the last file you edited in the
Tag Configuration Editor. If the list of names is empty, you have no default
.scf
file.
To change the currently selected
.scf
file, right-click on the tag control,
indicator, or constant, and select Tag Browser…. Press the Browse…
button to bring up a dialog box from which you can select the
.scf
file you
want to use. This is possible as long as the BridgeVIEW Engine is not
running. When the Engine is launched, the Tag Browser runs the currently
selected
.scf
file. You cannot change the current
.scf
file until you stop
the Engine.
You can create, edit or copy a tag by right-clicking on the tag control,
indicator, or constant, and selecting Create Tag…, Edit Tag…, or Copy
Tag…. Selecting any of these options invokes the Tag Configuration
Editor. Any new or changed tags are automatically saved to the
.scf
file,
and the list of available tags is then updated. For more information about
the Tag Configuration Editor, see Chapter 3,
.