Click View > Tag Editor to open the Tag Editor pane, as displayed on the right:

Here, all created tags and their designated names, data types, connected I/O devices, assigned I/O addresses, initial values, persistent attributes, and descriptions are shown. Users can create, group, edit, paste, copy, and delete tags from this pane. The user can also click the Tag Count icon to see how many tags of each type or device have been created.

The Tag Editor pane can be undocked by dragging the pane's header to be placed to the user’s liking.

To add a tag group, click the Add tag group icon in the Tag Editor pane. After pressing the button, a text field will open in the Tag Editor pane where a name for the tag group can be assigned.

If the user has too many tags in a single pane, finding and managing individual tags may be challenging. Tag groups allow users to organize tags based on category, with a tree structure for subordinate tags. The grouped tags are displayed and managed in the Tag Editor pane.

Tags can be defined and configured inside the Tag Editor pane. Within a Canvas project, tags can be accessed and updated by UI elements, external devices, scripts, and various utility functions (recipes, alarm groups, etc). There are three types of tags that Canvas currently has: Remote, Virtual, and Virtual (Runtime Only). Remote tags write and read their value to and from external devices. Virtual tags allow access to the Xpanel’s gateway and can be accessed by other devices through the Data Server feature. Virtual (Runtime Only) tags are only used internally within the Xpanel. They simulate devices and processes, process input data, and store data describing the application state.

Each tag supports boolean, analog, and string tags with the following data types: BOOL, REAL, LREAL, SINT, INT, DINT, LINT, USINT, UINT, UDINT, ULINT, and STRING.

1. Select the tag(s) or tag group(s) to be copied to Excela spreadsheet. The user can select multiple tags using the [Ctrl] + Left-click. The subordinate tags are also selected when the user chooses a group tag.

2. Copy ([Ctrl] + [C]) the selected tags to the clipboard.

3. Paste ([Ctrl] + [V]) the contents directly into Excela spreadsheet. Each column stores a different tag attribute. Please refer to the table in the next section for detailsThese tag attributes match the ones described in the Edit Tagwindow. A detailed description of the tag attributes and their intended functions can be found here. Note that the associated attributes of Encoding, Clamp Mode, Deadband Type, and Scale Mode populate in a spreadsheet, even if their parent attribute is disabled.

4. Edit the tag(s)/tag group(s) in Excelthe spreadsheet. The user Users can automatically create consecutive tags with Excel’s a spreadsheet’s increment/decrement feature. Note: Excel’s autoMost Auto-increment feature does features do not work for hexadecimal values. Please double-check that word and bit addresses for real tags follow the correct device address format.

1. Select the rows in the spreadsheet to copy.

2. Copy ([Ctrl] + [C]) the rows to the clipboard and paste ([Ctrl] + [V]) them to the Canvas Tag Editor pane. The pasted contents will replace tags with the same name.