Reference Item names in Equipment editor?

Nick,

BOOL_19 is actually the item name in your example. So your tag name should look like

{equipment.IODEVICE}_HGC_BOOL_19. 

Hope this would be helpful.

~jacky

Jacky,

Bool_19, yes, is my item name. I'm trying to avoid having to re-type/paste it into the Tagname and Address field. 
So i'd like to find a syntax to be {equipment.IODEVICE_HGC_PRM_{equipment.itemName} for the tagname

And {equipment.IODEVICE}HGC.PRM.{equipment.ItemName} for the PLC address. 

The idea is, if I make 1 item, then simply, duplicate the item and rename it to the item name i want, which matches with the PLC address, I can cut down alot of time adding items/tags. 

This is a control logix PLC with ALOT of UDT's. 

This is a great idea, Nick Dacek .  I don't think it's possible at the moment, though I would love to be proven wrong.  It is in the spirit of DRY programming (as opposed to WET) which I wholeheartedly endorse, having created many templates with similar patterns and had quite a few hard to track down bugs because of this.  Perhaps you could suggest it at https://citectscada.ideas.aha.io.  I'll vote for it!

Nick,

Item Name doesn't exist in the equipment dbf file so you cannot reference it in the template. In your screenshot, you are actually editing item Bool_19 that is a known value. So you have to duplicate it in both Address and Tag Name fields. Bool_19 will be added as an item name in Variable.dbf when the template is instantiated.

Nick,

Item Name doesn't exist in the equipment dbf file so you cannot reference it in the template. In your screenshot, you are actually editing item Bool_19 that is a known value. So you have to duplicate it in both Address and Tag Name fields. Bool_19 will be added as an item name in Variable.dbf when the template is instantiated.

It's the manual editing he tries to avoid, and that makes sense. A lot of copy-paste errors and typos occur just because of that manual editing. Having a placeholder for the item name makes duplicating items much easier.