The drivers group consists of tags that are used to provide an interface to physical I/O devices or to Windows system features, such as Dynamic Data Exchange.
The group is composed of the following members:
• Allen-Bradley driver
• Control & information/Ethernet I/P driver
• Data Flow RTU (VTScada)
• Dataradio diagnostic driver
• DDE driver
• DNP3 driver
• MDS diagnostic driver
• Modicon driver
• Omron host link driver
• OPC client driver
• Siemens S7 driver
• Polling driver (VTScada)
• Workstation driver
When Drivers is selected in the Tag Browser's Types drop-down list, and the New button is clicked, the Drivers Group dialog will open, enabling you to select the type of tag you wish to create.
To create a new tag, select the radio button corresponding to the type of tag you wish to create, and then click the OK button. A new tag properties folder associated with the selected tag type will open for configuration.