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Templates map data from the data source to PI tags, batches and event frames. When defining templates, you specify the data to be written and the events that trigger the update. To define templates using PI Event Frame Interface Manager, go to the Templates page and navigate to the desired type of template. You can configure templates that map the source data to string, integer or float data types. For each type of template, you specify triggers, which are conditions that active the template.

You can define the following types of templates:

• Property: Maps data to batch properties in event frame attributes in PI AF.

• Recipe: Defines the information stored and the naming convention used at each level in the generated batch hierarchy.

• Tag: Creates and updates PI tags, specifying how they are named and what data is written to them.

• Link: DCS Link templates allow relationships between event frames from separate interfaces to be defined. The trigger identifies the appropriate event and the value specifies the name of the target batch level event frame.

The following sections provide details about the specific types of templates.