Tags

What are tags and how do I use them?

Tags are a powerful way to organise your objects and resources making it easier to find and group similar pieces of data.

Tags can be a simple key word or phrase (much like a hashtag in social media apps) or a keyword or phrase with an associated value.

Tags can be added to object profiles and individual object instances. Any tags added to an object profile will be automatically added to all objects created from that profile.

The process of managing tags on object profiles, objects, and their resources is the same. To view the tag editor select an object profile, object, or resource and the relevant sidebar will open showing the tag editor. Once the sidebar is open follow the steps below.

Remember to click Save after making any changes

Adding tags

Tag names are case sensitive can have spaces so air_quality, air quality and Air Quality are all valid tag names but are deemed different tags

Adding a simple tag

In the Add a tag textbox type in the tag name and press Enter

The new tag will appear in the tag list

Adding a tag with value

In the Add a tag textbox type in the tag name followed by = and then the value e.g floor = 1

Press Enter and the tag will appear in the tag list

You do not need to add a space either side of the equals sign. All white space will be stripped away

Tags with values will show the first five characters of the value but you can hover over the tag to see the full value

Modifying a tag value

To modify the value of a tag or add a value to a simple tag just re-enter the tag name and value

To convert a value tag into a simple tag re-enter the tag name with no value

Deleting a tag

To delete a tag click on the X to the right of the tag in the tags list

💥 Interactive Demo