Manage Tags

you can manage tags by navigating to devicehub > tags manage existing tags you can manage existing tags from the tags pane to manage existing tags navigate to devicehub > tags from the tags pane, select to view tags from all devices or specific devices if needed, use the search bar to find the tag you have the option of using search filters contains and equal to for the tag you want to manage, click the action menu select from the following options edit update the parameters for the tag as required and click update tag refer to the industrial systems connection guide docid 8o4ksduafz6jcegj0whs4 for parameters specific to your device driver and review the tag parameters section view write topic write topics can be used with flows to write to the topic from the write dialog box, you can click the copy icon to copy it to your clipboard see topic use cases (plc status, poll once, write, manage, batch write) docid\ ntfszyztk5h rg4hkulqe to learn more view poll topic poll topics can be used with flows to poll a tag from the poll once dialog box, you can click the copy icon to copy it to your clipboard see topic use cases (plc status, poll once, write, manage, batch write) docid\ ntfszyztk5h rg4hkulqe to learn more remove delete the tag from the tags list clone & edit clone an existing tag and then edit the cloned tag when done, click clone tag note the tag name for the cloned tag and existing tag must be different important the current topic name generation rule uses a byte specific replacement protocol to create topic names in this system ascii special characters symbols and spaces are replaced with a single underscore (“ ”) since they are represented in 1 byte accented and extended unicode characters characters with accents (e g , “ó”) are replaced by a double underscore (“ ”), reflecting their 2 byte representation the 3 byte and 4 byte unicode characters are replaced with three (“ ”) and four (“ ”) underscores, respectively sort list of existing tags you can click column names to sort the current list of tags displayed in ascending and descending order note when you sort the list of tags, only the currently listed tags on the page are sorted for example, if a device has 100 tags, and 15 tags are currently displayed, only the 15 tags listed on the page are sorted increase the number of tags displayed on the page to view and sort more tags download tags as a csv file you can download the list of tags visible in the tag list by clicking the download as csv icon you have two options download all tags from all connected devices download tags only for the currently selected device remove multiple tags you can remove multiple individual tags or all tags from the tags pane to remove multiple tags navigate to devicehub > tags from the tags pane, do one of the following remove all tags select the tag column check box for all the tags select individual tags select each individual tag's check box click the trash icon the confirmation dialog box appears click yes all tags are removed from the tags list view and copy topic names to view and copy the available topic names for a tag, click the action menu and select view available topics note the available topics depends on the devicehub device used to store the tag configure tag column view you can modify which columns are displayed in the tags pane to modify columns displayed navigate to devicehub > tags from the tags pane, click the configure icon the display columns list appears select or deselect the columns you would like to display for the tags list on the tags pane, and then click outside the display columns list the columns are displayed according to your modifications note if the status check box is enabled, a color coded status appears next to each tag in the tag list green means that the status is good red means that there is an error