Wonderware Corporation

Steven Cotugno

Brian Kenneth Erickson

Jay S Cook

A system and method for displaying representations of tag sources representative of corresponding component devices is disclosed herein. The present system includes a tag dictionary for defining the tag sources in a predefined object-oriented format. The tag dictionary is comprised of tag definition objects, each containing information relating to a given tag source and each being associated with a tag type object. A tag browser allows for display and editing of the tag source representations in accordance with the tag definition objects. In a preferred implementation each of the representations includes information relating to a predefined set of parameters characterizing the tag sources. The tag browser also optionally includes a tag filter for causing display of those tag source representations comporting with tag selection criteria, and for suppressing display of all other tag source representations. A template tag dictionary is preferably provided within a development environment to facilitate generation of each tag dictionary. The template tag dictionary is modified within this development environment to reflect attributes of the tag sources. One or more template object-oriented controls of a predefined format compatible with the tag dictionary may also be provided in the development environment. These template object-oriented controls may be modified within the development environment so as to create a representation of each tag source of interest.

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San Juan Capistrano, CA, United States of America

Steven Cotugno