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Control Strategy Configuration
How to Enter Signal Tags
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How to Enter Signal Tags
Introduction
Signal tags are user assigned names that can be associated with the output of any item. They can be:
• Assigned to displays
• Used to connect discontinuous wires to other block inputs using connectors.
Entering signal tags
Step Action
1 From the Library Tree group “Other Items”, use the left Mouse button to click on the Signal
Tag symbol
in the block library tree, hold the button down, drag the Signal Tag symbol to
the function block diagram and release the mouse button. The Signal Tag symbol will appear
on the Function Block Diagram and the cursor will change to the softwire cursor.
ATTENTION: You cannot drop a signal tag directly onto an output pin. Drop it away from the
pin, then soft wire it to the pin. Once it is connected, you can move the signal tag to any
desired location.
2
Place the crosshairs on the output pin and click to connect the tag to the output (dotted Line).
You can add vertices like a softwire.
3
Double click on the tag name area to display the signal properties dialog box.
• Analog Signal Tag
Enter:
− Tag Name
− Descriptor
− Select Decimal Place [0-5]
Type in 127 to indicate exponential
notation (i.e. display Trend Points
Logarithmically)
− Engineering Units
• Digital Signal Tag
Enter:
− Tag Name
− Descriptor
− Off Label
− On Label