Not a valid tag name

Ignition
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I am creating a bunch of SQL tags based on the clients device names.
It appears that ‘28L67’ is invalid. I’m guessing that it is because it’s starting with a #.

  1. What are the tag naming rules? Can they be put in the user manual please?
  2. Can you change it so that ‘28L67’ is an allowed tag name? Please? :prayer:
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I’ve ended up prefacing numeric tags with an underscore.

3

For the moment I’ve done something similar. However, This tags are been generated by a 3rd party application and are been accessed/updated by it as well. Having to filter all tags access means a bunch of work that I’d rather not have to do.

Why is the limitation there? If it’s an OPC standard, I can see it for OPC tags, but I’m not using OPC.

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Right now tag names are restricted to starting with a character or an underscore. It was coded this way out of habit, I suppose, since we are used to this sort of naming restriction for things like database columns, programmatic variable names, etc.

I don’t think there should be any problem allowing digits as the starting character of tag name.

5

So I can look for it in this weeks release? :smiling_imp:

6

Yes you can! It is done.

7

you guys are awesome :prayer: :prayer: :prayer:

8

sigh
More things you can not put in a SQL TAG name:
é + . ( ) /

Things you can put in a SQL Tag name:
1234567890_-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Can the naming restrictions please be added to the documentation? :prayer:

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This info will be in the help manual in the next release.

10

Thank you, thank you, thank you

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Where are the naming rules in the manual? I cannot find them. If you search for naming in the documentation it simply pulls up Named Queries and such.