I'm relatively new at ignition and I'm struggling with the importing and exporting tags. Generally, I have a large number of tags from different devices (all modbus), that follow a standard format, but I'm struggling with how to create and manage these effectively, the only option ignition gives for import/export is xml/json. I would really like to be able to do all of my tag mapping in excel without having to create and maintain vba scripts for creating tags. How is this typically managed? Does everyone just create their own custom scripts for creating the tags?
You can still do a csv import, but you will need need to format it like shown here:
If your tags follow a standard formatting and addressing you may consider defining some UDT's.
Try Phil's tool,
I prefer to import tags as json without using a file import.
You can create some sample tags and copy/paste them into a text editor to get the format. Then I use perspective to bind a custom property to a data source that contains my tags and do a script transform on that to make the JSON.
This will return a bunch of stuff into the property the binding is on. You can copy/paste from that right into your tag database. It's amazing.
I am using UDTs actually - but a lot of my tags are going through a PLC, and so while the order of the variables is the same, the exact address is different for everything inside the UDT. Manually editing each one seems like a pain, will check out Phils tool and see if I can use it
awesome thanks! I will check it out