Data Type Document

The Data Type Document allows the user to create the structure to be used when creating tags.

The basic tag types are:

If the user wants to create a structure that will group related fields together, it is better to create a Data Type and then create a Tag associated with this Data Type.

All Data Types created will be available as a new "Type" in the Tags document.

In this Document, the user can Create New Tag, Configure Existing Tags and Remove Tags.

Example:

In this example we are creating a structure to represent a Tank and associating a tag to it.

. Open the Navigation Tree.

. Right-click the Data Types folder and insert a new document. At this point, the user could also create a folder and the document under it.

. When the new document opens, click insert Tag.

. Let's configure the Name (string), Temperature (float), Volume (float) and Pressure (float)

. Save the document as "TankStruct"

. So far, we have a structure called TankStruct with the 4 members (Name, Temperature, Volume and Pressure).

. Now we want to associate a tag to this new structure. Without the tag, the TankStruct cannot be used.

. Go to the Tags document you want to add the TankStruct tag.

. Insert a new tag, name it as objTank and configure its type as the TankStruct just created.

. It means you can use now:

. objTank.Name

. objTank.Temperature

. objTank.Volume

. objTank.Pressure

. This new objTank of type TankStruct can also be used as an array (static or dynamic). If you choose an array of dimension 1 and 10 positions, the syntax will be the following:

. objTank[0].Name

. objTank[0].Temperature

. objTank[0].Volume

. objTank[0].Pressure

...

. objTank[9].Name

. objTank[9].Temperature

. objTank[9].Volume

. objTank[9].Pressure