Now, I can select this property and delete it using the trashcan icon. You can see under the custom category, I've created a property called My Custom Property. Now you might have noticed I've already configured a custom property if I scroll down here. And finally, the little plus icon here gives us the opportunity to configure a custom property on our tag. I can also collapse or expand the categories. From here we can, for example, rearrange our properties alphabetically or by category, which is the default. I'd also like to mention that there's a taskbar up above. From the tag editor, we can also configure security, scripting, alarms or tag history. You can see, for example, that I've already configured documentation on this tag and it's already being displayed when we open up the tag editor. And then scrolling down a little bit, we have meta data properties, these give us the opportunity to describe our tag in ways that will help other users and developers of our project. Next we have numeric properties, these deal with things like scaling or engineering units we'd like to use for our tag. So just to demonstrate, I have a memory tag selected here, but if I cancel and double-click on my OPC tag here, we can see that now we have an OPC server property and an OPC item path property. The kinds of value properties we're provided will vary based on the type of our tag. And just to start out, we have basic properties that control, for example, the name of our tag or what tag group it's in. From here, we're provided a full list of the configurable properties of our tag. And however we'd like to do it, the end result is that we pull up the tag editor for our tag. ![]() So, for example, if I canceled out of this and then double-clicked on my tag, the tag editor would again come up. I could also double-click on the tag directly, might be a bit faster. Doing this is very simple, I can simply right-click on my tag and select edit tag. Now, let's say I wanted to edit one of my existing tags. ![]() To start, we'll come over to our tag browser in the designer here and we'll see that I have a couple tags configured already. In this video, we'll be walking through the layout and basic features of this interface. Ignition 8 comes with a new interface for working with tags.
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