National Instruments BridgeVIEW How Do You Access or Change Tag Configuration Information in Your Application?

Chapter 3 Tag Configuration

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When you register a server in your system, BridgeVIEW registers

the location of its configuration utility, if it exists. You can access

the server configuration utilities from the Servers menu of the Tag

Configuration Editor.

Note When you update the server registry while the Tag Configuration Editor is

running, select Servers»Refresh to prompt the Tag Configuration Editor to

read the updated information.

How Do You Access or Change Tag Configuration Information in Your Application?

BridgeVIEW allows you read/write access of tag configuration

information to use in your application. This is often helpful when

displaying engineering units, scales, and other information about the tag

or changing a tag from Offscan to Onscan. The Tag Attributes VIs obtain

and determine this information. The Tag Attributes VIs are listed below.

• Get Tag Attribute

• Set Tag Attributes

• Set Multiple Tag Attributes

• Get Tag Description Group

• Get Tag I/O Connection Info

• Get Tag Logging Info

• Get Tag Range and Units

• Get Tag Alarm Enabled

• Get Analog Tag Alarm Limit

• Get Discrete Tag Alarm Setting

• Get Bit Array Tag Alarm Setting

• Get Tag Bad Status Alarm

More information and an activity that use the Tag Attributes VIs can be

found in the Tag Attributes VIs section of Chapter 7, Advanced Application

Topics. For complete information about these, and other VIs, see

Appendix A, HMI Function Reference.