Note: There is no specific "owner" tag type, rather an owner tag is typically a custom designed tag that is created using VTS scripting code for special projects.

The Owner field enables you to specify a tag to which this contributor should supply its data.  An owner tag is one which you must design and then create, using the VTS scripting language.

The owner tag may keep track of different aspects of each contributor's data, from the presence of a user-defined manual data value, to questionable data, according to the configuration of the checkboxes appearing beneath the Owner field. These checkboxes also determine the way that this contributor tag's value should be used in the owner tag's calculations.

When selected, the Set Owner\DataX[…] To Value checkbox enables you to set the value of this contributor tag as the nth element in the owner tag's array. You may choose to set this contributor tag's value in more than one of the owner tag's array elements if required.

An owner tag may keep track of the alarm priority and status of its contributors. When selected, the Set Active/Unack. Priority checkbox causes the owner tag to keep track of the priority of the contributor's active alarm (or records an Invalid if the contributor is not currently in an alarm state). Selecting the Set Active/Unack. Priority checkbox also causes the owner tag to record whether or not the alarm has been acknowledged.

An owner tag may keep track of the number of contributor tags that are providing manual data (user-defined values), rather than reading data from their I/O device. When selected, the Record Use of Manual Data checkbox enables you to increment the owner's count of the number of tags that are contributing manual data by 1 when manual data has been provided for this contributor, and decrement this count by 1 when no manual data value has been specified.

An owner tag may keep track of the quality of the data for each of its contributors. When selected, the Record Tag Quality checkbox enables you to increment the owner tag's count of the number of tags that are contributing quality data by 1, and decrement this count by 1 when this contributor is not supplying quality data.

An owner tag may keep track of the questionable status of the data for each of its contributors. When selected, the Record Tag Validity checkbox enables you to increment the owner tag's count of the number of tags that are contributing questionable data by 1, and decrement this count by 1 when this contributor is not supplying questionable data.