I have a UDT that I need to make 20 instances of and I'd like the name and a handful of parameters to increment.
I've found the manual documentation on this to be a little lacking.
Instance names should "AF1", "AF2", "AF3", etc.
The "Device" parameter is the same for all instances.
The "Name" parameter should be "Aeration Fan 1", "Aeration Fan 2", etc.
How do I fill out the dialog?
No clue.
The lack of flexibility of this was one of my motivators to create the Spreadsheet Import Tool. (Which then expanded dramatically in scope....)
In 8.1 you would make a list of strings for the patterns of the parameters.
I think the Base Tag Name+Tag Name Pattern will work in your case.
The info box on the popup is accurate from my experience:
Not that it helps in the short term, but for posterity @Gerardo_Bolanos completely revamped the multi-instance wizard in 8.3, and now it's easily capable of this task (and a lot more):
This is also something performable via the REST API side of things in 8.3, right?
Not related.
The multi-instance wizard is the piece of GUI that lives in the designer whose sole purpose is "make a bunch of UDT instances following some standardized pattern".
You are capable of making tags, including UDT instances, via the REST API in 8.3, but that's orthogonal to the wizard GUI.
Sure, but e.g. one could replicate the functionality of the wizard by scriptifying a bunch of post reqs to make UDT instances?
Or is this not possible
Yes, that's what I meant by my second sentence. UDT instances are just a different type of tag; if you can create tags you can create UDT instances.
