Generate Variable Tags

After you have Add Equipment Using Equipment Editor, you need to generate variable tags for the equipment if you are creating a new Situational Awareness project. If you are upgrading a previously created project, and would like to use the Situational Awareness Genies with tags in the old project, you will need to migrate the existing tags.

Generate Tags for a New Project

Plant SCADA provides sample equipment templates that you can use as guide to create your equipment.

To generate tags for a new project:

1. Make a copy of the required equipment templates.

2. Modify the templates to suit your requirements. This is because the templates may not be suitable for certain protocols such as Modbus. In this case, you will need to delete the Address property.

3. Add Equipment Using Equipment Editor.

4. Generate the tags (see Update Equipment).

Migrating Existing Tags for an Upgraded Project

To generate tags for an upgraded project:

5. In the Equipment Editor, build your equipment hierarchy in the right pane. To do this, right click and select New Equipment. The Add New Equipment dialog box is displayed.

6. Specify the Name and Project.

7. Leave the Type as "No type".

8. Click OK.

9. In Plant SCADA Studio, navigate to the System Model Activity. Select Equipment.

10. Use the column filtering options to filter the tag names for a piece of equipment.

11. Add the equipment name as specified in the Equipment Editor in step 2.

12. Add the item name for the equipment. Items Names should be the same as the Items displayed in the Equipment Editor, Equipment Types tab.

13. Create the required graphics pages with the equipment.

14. Configure the required Content Types.

Note: f you need only alarm indicators for your upgraded project, create the equipment and map the equipment to alarms in Plant SCADA Studio, System Model Activity, Alarms.