Automate tag Creation

[Sawyer_Jones]

I have a lot of tags to add into a UDT definition. They're modbus addressed, and it's annoying to manually create so many tags. I already have a list of all the names and opc addresses I want. Is there anyway in the ignition designer to automate the creation of tags? I have experience with python, and if there was an ignition-based script that could create tags and edit their address, that would save me a lot of time. If not, all good. I get paid by the hour anyway.

[pturmel]

See system.tag.configure()

Related topic:

Faster way to input tags?

I'm currently in the process of adding 100s of tags into Ignition, and I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a little tedious. I've created a UDT for the ones that are the same, but ultimately creating a new instance for a tag and then manually navigating to the device and selecting the tag just seems like it takes more time than it should. I've looked at multi-instance wizard but it doesn't seem quite what I need as many of these tags aren't necessarily in order. Is there some feature that I'm miss…

[pturmel]

You should also consider creating UDTs for any repeating sections of tags in the address space, where the UDT is parameterized with starting offsets in the applicable modbus address types.

[Sawyer_Jones]

Much appreciated!