Our historian users are having difficulty finding tags, we already have an equipment hierarchy in Citect. I found this tool:
https://shop.exchange.se.com/apps/44513#!overview
however this just creates nested public tag groups. I would like to create a hierarchy the same way System Platform does, which also allows defining hierarchical names for tags (eg giving tags in the hierarchy user friendly names for people to select), this is very similar to the object model in eDNA.
This is what I have found so far
- I can pull the tool above apart or simply use python or Excel to build me a hierarchy table model that I can convert to a format allowing me to map it to the WWH System Platform model
- The data in a system platform deployment in WWH ends up in the following tables:
- PublicNameSpace
- aaAreaData
- aaAttributeData
- aaObjectData
- aaAreaXML contains a version number only. Not sure if it is important.
- It seems to get it into those tables you need to put the data in here:
- aaObjectDataPending
- aaAttributeDataPending
- Then call:
- aaInternalNSObjectUpdate (which will call aaInternalNSObjectPopulate), then
- aaInternalNSAreaUpdate
I haven't gone right through all the details, but maybe someone else has already done this. I might also post something to the Wonderware forum to see if anyone has useful scripts or something to do the above.
I'm wondering if anyone else has done this before me?
Perhaps AVEVA could develop a tool for this or make it part of the connector at some point.
