Edit default point properties button

The Edit Default Point Properties button () typically opens a dialog to let you configure the default point properties, which will be applied to new points added to Data Archive. The button is usually located in the System Management Tools (SMT) toolbar, often under IT Points > Ping or within the Points section, depending on your version or SMT display settings. However, its exact location may vary based on your SMT version, screen resolution, or display configuration. These default properties are stored on the local machine where the SMT host is running and are automatically loaded when the same Windows user starts up the PI TCPResponse Plug-in on the SMT host.

You can use Reset button to set the default point properties to their program set values, which are loaded when the plug-in is started at the first time.

Among the default point properties, two properties, Tag and Target Setting, need to be configured specially. Target Setting property in the default point properties is used to store the information of the remote machine, including Device, Port, Input and Reply. You can set these default values that will be applied to new points. However, The properties Device or Input will be updated automatically when you create a new point for a remote machine.

The automatically-generated Tag has the following format:

[Prefix][Delimiter][TCP Source][Delimiter][TCP Target]

• Prefix

  The prefix used in the name of new TCPResponse points.

• TCP Source

  The name of the source that sends out the service request. You can use the Data Archive name or interface node name as the name of the source. You can also manually enter a name of the source.

• TCP Target

  The name of target that the service request is sent to. You can choose to use either the host name or the IP address of the remote machine as the name of the target.

• Delimiter

  The delimiter is used to separate Prefix, TCP Source and TCP Target. It must be a single character and valid for point name.

The background of above four fields will turn to yellow when you type in any invalid character for a tag. After you finish editing the tag configuration, use Enter key or click outside the tag configuration dialog to accept the changes, or you can press Esc key to cancel all changes.

After you finish making changes on the default point properties, click the OK button or close the dialog to save these changes, or you can click Cancel button to discard all changes. Note that these changes will be saved in local machine once you click Accept.