Mass conversion of direct OPC tags to UDT's

[PGriffith]

jq is a very powerful (somewhat hard to use) tool to make structural manipulations to JSON data:
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

You could likely also accomplish this through scripting, but I'd probably do it with jq, to be honest.

For example, adding a computed tooltip to all your OPC tags:

How to create / append bulk tooltips via script with json export?

You can do it with jq (a downloadable command-line executable designed to manipulate JSON): walk( if type == "object" and .valueSource == "opc" then .tooltip = "TagName: \(.name) \(.opcItemPath)" else . end) https://jqplay.org/s/Pe6T7qNEFY I mostly copied this snippet from here: