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Chapter 3 Tag Configuration

For easy viewing and editing in the spreadsheet, press the

Use Default Order button.

After you edit the file, save it as a .txt file. Then, from the Tag

Configuration Editor, select File»Import… to import the information

from the spreadsheet file.

If you use spreadsheet files with the Tag Configuration Editor, it is

important that you understand the following points:

• If you do not choose all of the fields when exporting your data, you

lose configuration information when you import it back to the Tag

Configuration Editor.

• You might choose to export a subset of information, and then rely

on tag default parameters when you import the data back in to the

Configuration Editor. However, each row in the spreadsheet file must

contain the tag name and data type fields, or the import mechanism

cannot read it.

• Some configuration parameters, such as Historical Logging

Configuration and Event Configuration, are inherited from the

currently open .scf file when you import spreadsheet data.

• When importing, you can append the imported tags to the current

.scf file.

Note If the tag name and data type fields are missing, the File»Import… option does

not work on the spreadsheet file.