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Optimize Your Configuration
Note: This note is relevant only to those with a multilingual user interface:
When editing any textual parameter (description, area, engineering units...) always work in
the phrase editor. Any changes made directly to the textual parameter will result in a new
phrase being created rather than the existing phrase being changed.
In a unilingual application this makes no difference, but in a multilingual application it is
regarded as poor practice.
Caution: The Equipment Type of an I/O and Calculations tag is a powerful feature when
used with care. Do not assign Equipment Types casually, without a clear plan for how you
intend to use this feature.
There is no tool to remove an equipment type from VTScada because such a tool is unnecessary. An
equipment type definition will exist if any tag uses it and will stop existing when no tag uses it (following the
next re-start).
Write a clear description
Tags should be given a description that identifies the tag using plain language. The tag description
appears throughout VTScada in tool tips, and in the Tag Browser, to help users determine the tag's name
and its function. The Alarm Notification System will identify alarms using the description rather than the
name (subject to your configuration choices), therefore it is vital that you provide a clear, unambiguous
description for tags that are alarmed. This is especially important if using a naming standard that creates
cryptic names such as "26PHDL\VC-0001\FCVY1".
Help Search Key
Used only by those who have developed their own Compiled Help Module (CHM) documentation. To see
this system in action, right-click on any tag, as drawn on any page. The pop-up menu will include a Help
option. Select that and you'll be reading VTScada's documentation about the selected tag. You could be
reading your own documentation instead.
This is not commonly done. Refer to Custom Help Files in the reference topics at the end of the VTScada
documentation for further information and other options.
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