Is something wrong with the code?
i dont think there is something enw related to tags yet, but i dont really follow those changes a lot.
Nothing wrong with the code, it works just fine. My only issue is the need to use a message vs using a native method. @PGriffith is this a feature request and is there any activity on it?
It hasn’t been picked up, but even if it did you’d have to send a message because it would only be implemented in the gateway scope.
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For future reference, it is possible to edit Tag Group configurations using a script as hinted by @victordcq
This is how I implemented it in a tag value change script:
This script would save a new tag group which is a copy of the Tag Group at index [4] with a different name and a different mode.
If I had only changed the mode it would have edited the tag group and changed the mode. Using provider.saveTagGroupsAsync will edit the tag group if that name already exists. To avoid a NullPointer exception I had to retrieve each property from the reference tag group instead of creating a new one from scratch. I left the lines as a comment for the curious.
if currentValue.value == True:
import copy
from com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway import IgnitionGateway
from com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.tags import config
from com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.config import PropertySet, Property, BasicProperty, PropertyValue , BasicPropertySet, BasicDescriptiveProperty
provider = IgnitionGateway.get().getTagManager().getTagProvider('default')
taggroups = provider.getTagGroupsAsync().get()
tagGroupConfig = taggroups[4].getConfig()
try:
newTagGroupConfig = BasicPropertySet()
###This loop copies properties
for prop in tagGroupConfig:
if str(prop.getProperty().name) == str(u'mode'):
propValue = PropertyValue(prop.getProperty(),'Leased')
propSet = newTagGroupConfig.set(propValue )
elif str(prop.getProperty().name) == str(u'name'):
# newProp = BasicDescriptiveProperty()
# newProp.setName('name')
propValue = PropertyValue(prop.getProperty(),'TagGroupName')
propSet = newTagGroupConfig.set(propValue )
else:
propValue = prop
propSet = newTagGroupConfig.set(propValue )
newConfig = config.TagGroupConfiguration(newTagGroupConfig)
# taggroups.append(newConfig)
result = provider.saveTagGroupsAsync([newConfig]).get()
system.tag.writeBlocking(tagPaths=[tagPath], values=[False])
except Exception as e:
system.tag.writeBlocking(tagPaths=["[.]tagGroupConfig"], values=[e.args])
system.tag.writeBlocking(tagPaths=[tagPath], values=[False])
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