Adding user defined tags, Designing a project: adding user-defined tags, Adding user-defined tags – IDEC WindSRV User Manual
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5. To complete the addition of the device, click Next | Finish.
Note: The server is now ready to start providing data to OPC clients. With the server's online full-time mode of
operation, the server can start providing OPC data immediately. At this point, however, the configuration can potentially
be lost since the project has not yet been saved. Before saving, users can add tags to the server. See Also:
Adding User-Defined Tags
There are two ways to use the server to get data from a device to the client application. The first and most common
method requires that users first define a set of tags in the server project and then use the name previously assigned to
each tag as the item of each link between the client and the server. This method makes all user-defined tags available
for browsing within OPC clients. User-defined tags also support scaling. See Also:
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1. To add a tag to the project, first select a device name from the Channel/Device tree view within the server. The Tag
dialog below uses the example project and has "Device1" as the currently selected device.
2. Next, click Edit | New Tag. Alternatively, right-click on the device and select Add Tag from the Context Menu or
click the toolbar's Add Tag icon. Selecting Add Tag by all of these methods will invoke Tag Properties, a dialog in which
users set the tag name, specify a device-specific address, select a data type and set the tag's access method. Before
continuing, refer to
for terminology.