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Rockwell Automation Logix5000 Controllers I/O and Tag Data Programming Manual User Manual

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Organize tags

Chapter 2

Guideline

Details

These tags are easier to read

Than these tags

Tank_1

TANK_1

Tank1

TANK1

tank_1

tank1

Consider the alphabetical order of tags

Logix Designer application displays tags of the same scope in alphabetical order. To make it easier to monitor related

tags, use similar starting characters for tags that you want to keep together.

Starting each tag for a tank with ‘Tank’ keeps the tags
together.

Otherwise, the tags may end up separated
from each other.

Using extended properties in logic

You can access limit extended properties defined on tags using the .@Min and .@Max syntax. However, you cannot

write to extended properties values in logic.
For example, in the Ladder Editor, you can use limit extended properties on an instruction’s source operand.

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