UNS Designer UI Reference

UNS Asset Tree (Reference): The Asset Tree provides:

• Hierarchical data organization
• Visual tag management

 UNS Tags (Reference) represent real-time variables and their associated historical records, providing a structured way to model process information by linking to physical devices, databases, or calculated values. 

Tags in the Unified Namespace provide:

• Real-time data representation

UNS  UserTypes (Reference), also referred as UDTs, or DataTemplates, extend the platform's predefined data types by defining custom types with properties tailored to business needs, enabling modeling of solution-specific data structures like equipment status and asset attributes. A UserType provide:

• Custom data type definitions

UNS Enumerations (Reference) ssociate numeric tag values with descriptive text strings, enabling meaningful data presentation by displaying text instead of numbers in HMI displays.

Enumerations provide:

• Value-to-text mapping

UNS TagProvider Services (Reference) enable direct interaction with variables in remote systems without creating local tags. TagProvider Services provide:

• Dynamic external data access
• Tagless connections to remote systems

UNS TagDiscovery Monitor (Reference) provides real-time visibility into TagProvider services  connections and enables browsing external data sources for integration into the solution.

The TagProviders Monitor provides:

• External data source browsing