Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 100)

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 Create and view tags
 Edit, duplicate, and delete tags
For details about using the Tags editor, see Help.
Update the contents of the Tags editor
You can create tags in the Tags editor, but you can also create them as you work in other
editors, and you can import them from an existing tag database. To see the result of
changes to the database you make in other editors while the Tags editor is open, update
the contents.
To update the contents of the editor
 From the View menu, select Refresh, or click the Refresh tool.
When you select Refresh, the undo buffer is cleared and recent changes can’t be
automatically reversed.
Refresh is not available if you haven’t accepted the current tag.
For information about creating tags in other editors, see page 7-10.
Search for HMI tags
Use the Tags editor’s query box to select the tags you want to show in the spreadsheet.
This allows you to edit tags in different folders without browsing the folder hierarchy. You
can:
 Select a single tag by typing the tag name.
 Select multiple tags by typing wildcard characters.
These are the wildcard characters:
For example, to search for all the tags that contain the string “pump” in their name, type
*pump* in the Search For box. When you press Enter, a list of tags containing the string
“pump” appears in the spreadsheet.
When you do searches, remember that the backslash in a folder name counts as a character
in the tag name.
This character Does this
? Matches any single character.
* Matches any number of characters, including the backslash (\) character.
Use this wildcard character by itself to show all the tags in the HMI tag
database.