Overview

Equipment tags and batch function tags are the two general categories of AVEVA Batch Management tags. The equipment tags refer to the phase control and status tags and to the phase formula parameter tags. The batch function tags provide access to the AVEVA Batch Management System hooks. To use any of these tags in an InTouch client application, the tag must be accessible to the application.

The following three methods are available for making these tags available in the InTouch application:

• Manually define the tags in InTouch.

• Use the Tag Linker to export a .csv file that is imported into InTouch using the DBLOAD utility. For more information on exporting tags using Tag Linker, see "Tag Linker."

• Use the InTouch browsing capability to reference the batch tags without having to create the tags in the InTouch Tagname Dictionary.

This section describes the steps that are required to enable you to browse AVEVA Batch Management tags from InTouch and to remotely reference the tags in InTouch without having to maintain the tags in the tagname dictionary.

There are only two required steps:

1. Define the batch tag sources in InTouch.

2. Use the batch tags in the InTouch application.

   Note: Batch function tags are not accessible through the InTouch tag browser.