I know that in a tag folder I can export it export it, then open it in notepad++ and then I can go in using find and replace and change everything that has tagA to tagB. I can do that with most things in Ignition. However, is there any quick way to do this in Reports. I have a report where I need to add 30 new parameters which are exactly the same as 30 already there just that instead of tagA they need to say tagB is there anyway of doing a bulk insert or something similar to that?
What do your parameters look like, are they expressions, or simply tag paths?
If they are tag paths, instead of using 30 params with 30 paths, use a scripting source that generates all 30 tag paths, read them in a single bulk read, and supply it to data
Oh I never thought of doing it that say. Sadly I now have so many tags in there and its designed already to read off these specific parameters. I should keep this idea handy for future designs. As for my situation now is there some type of bulk insert I could use in this case?
I think the implied message here is that there is no bulk method, so instead of manually adding them, make the system work better in the way that was mentioned. Half the time it takes less time to do it that way.
Yea, I was afraid of that. But sounds good. I will keep that in mind for futures. It would take me more work to redo the whole report with scripts then just adding these manually. But thank you all for the information
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