Is there a way to build graphics within a class so that it doesn't add to tag count ? Our SIs love AVEVA Edge but are penalised with tag count for creating template graphics, any way around this ?
Is there a way to build graphics within a class so that it doesn't add to tag count ? Our SIs love AVEVA Edge but are penalised with tag count for creating template graphics, any way around this ?
When creating Linked symbols, you can create "custom properties" the syntax is #PropertyName:optionalDefaultValue. The symbol itself won't consume any tags until you use the symbol and assign it tags. You can put a tag in as the Default value or assign it text in double quotes, or because it is optional, leave it blank (then it won't be assigned to a tag). For example when I define the symbol: 
when I make it a linked symbol it shows this:
Notice the value is blank, but you can add a tag later.
Hello Scott
If it is a standard (Bool, Integer, Real, String) tag it is true, you don't need to create a tag, and the "Custom property" is the place holder, the question will be how do you avoid creating a tag when you are using a Class?
Thanks Rainer
I have seen that Video from Miguel Meza.
What he does is exactly what we are doing, the problem we found with that is that If we want to have the elements not related to a particular tag of project, we need to create a generic Tag, that we can move from one project o other, and tag is not connected to any PLC, but is wasting tag on my database, and if I have 10 classes on my library, and each class has 20 members, I am using 200 tags just for the Library, and that's what I want to avoid somehow.
This is what happens when you try to use the class name, it
I think I will have to pay the extra tags, with the engineering efficiency that we get back , by using this approach.
Thanks very much 
