Rockwell Automation 9301 Series RSView32 Users Guide - Manual (Page 86)

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RSView32 User’s Guide
Using the Accept and Discard buttons
When you enter information, the Prev and Next buttons change to
Accept and Discard buttons. Click Accept to save tag and alarm
information. Click Discard to cancel changes to a tag.
Using the form
Use the form to create a tag. In the upper part of the form, define the
basic characteristics of the tag, such as tag name, type, security, and
specifics related to the tag type. In the lower part of the form, define
the data source (where the tag’s values will come from).
Select the Alarm check box to define alarm conditions for an analog
or digital tag. To edit alarms once they have been defined, click the
Alarm button.
RSView32 supports 40,000 tags with alarms. Of these, 5,000 can be
analog tags.
Using the query box
Use the query box to select the tags you want displayed in the
spreadsheet. This allows you to edit tags in different folders without
browsing the folder hierarchy. You can:
select a single tag by typing the tag name
select multiple tags by typing wildcards. The wildcards are:
This
character
Does this
? Matches any single character.
* Matches any number of characters, including the
backslash (\) character.
Use this wildcard by itself to display all the tags in
the tag database.