Paste Tags to Displays

Applying Paste Tags to Displays

Create or Select Tags in the Project

The first step to use this feature is to create a Tag in your Project. This tag can be a simple one, an array or Custom Type.

To better understand the feature, three examples are shown below. The tags created are as follows:

1.	Tag.Integer1 -- Integer DataType -- Simple Tag.
2.	Tag.Digital1 -- Digital DataType -- Array of 10 elements.
3.	Tag.CustomType -- Custom DataType
-- Sub-Elements: Element1 (Integer), Element2 (Integer.)

Copy Selected Tags to Clipboard

Now that our tags were created, we can start adding them to the display. Right-click the Integer1 Tag, and select Copy Selected Row option.

Paste Tags in the Draw area 

Go to the Draw Environment, at the desired Page. Right-click the display and select Paste. You should see the Tag being inserted into the display, already formatted with a TextOutput, for label, and a TextBox for displaying value.

The same logic can be applied for array Tags. Copy the Tag row from Edit → Tags → Objects related to Digital1 array. All elements should appear formatted when Pasted into a page.

Lastly, for a Custom Type Tag, Copy the Parent element from Edit → Tags → Objects and Paste it into your page. The child elements will be automatically formatted at the Display.

Copy and Paste Tags to Symbols

When there is a symbol with the same name of custom type, the copy and paste of a tag from this custom type to a page will not paste the tag to a Text Output; it will paste the symbol with the tag already configured.

Below is the “Motor” symbol using the motor custom type:

Copying Motors tag to a page will past all motors symbols created and configured with the right tag:

It is possible to execute this operation with custom type inside of custom type with several different custom type at same time.

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