Drawing Methods for Child Tags

A good method of configuring a drawing method for your parent and its child tags is to build a blank page with all the drawing methods required for the station. Once you have completed the page, open its source code, copy it, and paste that code into the template.

 

Parameterized pages and user drawing methods (DMs) are particularly well suited for drawing your stations and are an efficient alternative to writing graphics code in the template. 

The process for adapting a parameterized page or DM to display a child tag station is as follows:

Given a child tag that has been added to an application and where at least one instance of the tag has been created.

1.  Create either a new parameterized page or a user drawing method.

2.  Draw the station using ordinary tags.

3.  Add a parameter to the parameterized page or DM.  This will be a tag type where the selected type is the child tag structure.

1.  For each drawing method that makes up the station, change its source from tag to parameter.

2.  Select the parameter, then the child tag or grand-child tag from the parent tag.

3.  Save your work.