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A screen where tags are created and browsed from multiple plant systems, and organized in user-defined multi-level logical structures.

 

You can build plant-specific tag catalog containing the tags from the shop floor systems such as SCADA and plant historians.

Structure

The Plant Information Maintenance contains the following sections:

  • Data Servers

    • Allows you to browse for PCo data servers and displays the list of groups and tags from the plant historians. For more information, see Browse Data Servers.

  • Plant Catalog

    • Allows you to do the following from the Plant Catalog pane:

      • Create groups and tags

      • Rename and modify groups and tags

      • Delete groups and tags

      • Organize the tags using the Cut, Copy and Paste functions

      • Map tags to the tags in the PCo data server

      • Disconnect tags from the data server

      • Import

        You can add contents available in an XML document to the plant information catalog. When you select a group and import an XML document, your content is added as the lower-level nodes to the selected group.

      • Export

        You can export selected contents and the lower-level nodes from the plant tag catalog and the live catalog to an XML document.

        Note Note

        You can import and export only groups and not tags.

        End of the note.

      • Refresh PCo Metadata

      • Synchronize

        Any changes to a property set or category must be updated to the tags and groups in the plant catalog. However, if the changes are not updated, an indicator besides such tags and groups appears in the Sync Status column of the Plant Catalog tab. This indicates that the associated property set or category is not updated with the changes.

        Synchronize button updates changes to a single group or tag. A screen with all the changes related to addition, deletion, and modification to property sets are displayed. You can either synchronize all the changes or only a part of the changes. The group or the tag is still out of sync if you select only one or part of the changes. When all the changes are applied, the group or the tag is synchronized with the changes.

        Synchronize All button updates all the selected groups and the tags with the Out-of Sync indicator. The system does not prompt with the changes related to particular properties or categories.

  • Properties

    • General: Displays the details of a group and a tag.

    • Property Sets: You can add, delete, and modify the property sets and their properties. The default SAP_PCo Metadata property set is available on creation of a tag.

    • Custom Property: You can customize any tag with your own values.

    • Translate: You can assign a translation language to a group and tag.

    • Log: The Log tab displays the details of user activity on groups and tags, that is, it displays the details when a custom property or a property set is added or deleted. Additionally, the table displays the details of property set and custom properties addition and deletion.