Tooltips: Including Path Info and Special Characters

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Looking at providing additional information in the Tooltips for Metadata on Tags.
Currently you can include Parameters within the Tooltip along with any String the user wishes to add.

Question:
1.) How would you include the full Folder Path information within the Tooltip for the Tag?
Example:(Say the Tag is in the following folder structure)
Plant
Area1 <-- Folder name
Equipment1 <-- Folder name
Motor1.Amps <-- Tag
I would like to show in the Tooltip: “Area1.Equipment1.Motor1.Amps”
2.) How do you add a Carriage Return Line Feed to the Tooltip so you can display multiple lines?

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  1. if you have just a few tags, you can right-click on the tag and pick ‘Copy Tag Path’ which you can then paste into the tooltip and modify to your heart’s content.
    If you have a lot of them, then you can get it through scripting via system.tag.browseTags() and iterate through all of them.

  2. html formatting will do the trick.

<html>Line1<br>Line2<br>Line3...
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Thanks for your suggestion Jordan.

For question #1 above I am looking for a more dynamic method to get this information.

For question #2 I may be misunderstanding something as I am not sure if you can add HTML to the Tooltip on the Meta data for a Tag (at least when I tried it didn’t seem to work). See my picture attached.

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I’ll demonstrate question 2 first, since question 1 will require a bit more tooling around… or tooltipping around, if you prefer…

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A shameless plug, I know. :laughing:

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Okay. I've come up with a workaround.
In the UDT Definintion, put in a parameter hold the path... oddly enough, I chose 'Path'. :wink:

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Running this script will put the path names (minus the instance name, of course) and stick it in the {Path} parameter.

tagList=system.tag.browseTags(UDTParentType="UDT_Test", recursive=True)

for tag in tagList:
  udtName=str(tag)
  pathName=str(tag.path).replace(str(tag.name),'')
  system.tag.editTag(tagPath=udtName,parameters={"Path":pathName})


Note that this is written for a specific UDT type (UDT_Test). This can be rewritten a bit to hit all UDT Instances. It would just take a bit longer to execute, since it would have to check every tag to see if it's a UDT. :slight_smile:

Also, it's not the most dynamic way of doing it. But it can be put into a gateway timer script to auto-refresh every so often.

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Thanks Jordan. Much appreciated.

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Jordan,

That script is genius. I never would have thought of that and you just saved me a massive amount of time. Thank you, sir!

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You are most welcome, sir! :slight_smile: