Order Tab

When you add a Status or Control tag (analog or digital) to your application, and associate this new tag with a Polling Driver, VTScada automatically adds a graphic representation of the tag to the I/O device's station dialog (that is, the dialog that is displayed when the associated site symbol is clicked on the Overview page).

Station dialogs have four columns, with each column displaying I/O of a specific type. The first column on the left displays graphics for the analog status tags associated with this I/O device at the top of the column, and graphics for the pulse input tags associated with this I/O device at the bottom of the column. The second column displays digital status tags at the top of the column, and pump status tags at the bottom of the column. The third and fourth columns display output tags in corresponding pairs (e.g. On and Off). An example of a station dialog is displayed below.

Although you cannot change the order in which the columns appear, you can change the order in which the I/O appear within their section of a given column using the Display Order property on the Order tab.

When you set the Display Order property for a tag, the number selected indicates the tag's order in its column of the station dialog in relationship to other tags of the same type (for example, the order of this analog status tag in relation to the other analog status tags at the top of the first column).

If you do not specify a display order, tags will appear in their designated column in the order in which they were created.