Use smart names for tags

Tag labels represent many different pieces of information, such as tag names, location, units, keywords, etc. This can make it difficult to differentiate fully-qualified tag names when multiple tags share some common values.

Smart Names can be used to make tag names more readable in your reports. Smart Names are generated for a group of fully-qualified tag names by applying the following rules:

• For each tag, start with the Alias if one is defined, otherwise start with the TagName

• Prefixes and suffixes are treated independently

• Prefixes and suffixes break only on whitespace and punctuation: - , . _ / \ |

• Prefixes and suffixes are case-insensitive

• Common prefixes and suffixes are truncated from all labels

• If removing common prefixes and suffixes results in an empty label, do not truncate

• If removing common prefixes and suffixes results in any duplicate labels, do not truncate

• The final format of the Smart Name is "Trimmed Label [Trimmed Location]".

  Note: The location portion of the Smart Name is optional, depending on whether location information is both available, and different, for the selected tags

  Example 1:

This example demonstrates tags with common prefixes and suffixes.

Example 2:

This example demonstrates tags with common prefixes and suffixes that would result in an empty label if truncated.

Example 3:

This example demonstrates tags with common suffixes, with available location information.