General Tab

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To display or edit general parameters listed below, click the General Tab. To modify the values, enter new values in the appropriate fields and then click the Update button at the bottom of the screen to apply the changes. Until you click the Update button, entering a new value changes the display of the field name to blue.

Field Description
Description The tag description of the selected tag.
EGU Description The engineering units, if any, assigned to the selected tag.
Comment Comments, if any, that apply to the selected tag.
StepValue This tag property is used to indicate that the actual measured value changes in a sharp step instead of a smooth linear interpolation. This option should only be selected for numeric data. Enabling this option only affects data retrieval; it has no effect on data collection or storage.
Spare Configuration The Spare 1 through Spare 5 fields list any configuration information stored in these fields.