Intelligently Rename Tags
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abaker@springfieldunderground.com
One of the biggest problems I've had in Ignition is the lack of ability to rename tags, popups, templates and the like because all links to them are broken. Could a smart rename feature be created that would automatically change all links to a tag when it is renamed, or at least point to all the locations it is used so the user could easily change them? Thank you
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Marco Barbieri
A Must Have!
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Anton Šmerc
This is really one of the best ideas and it's been ignored for 5 years by IA...
sad... very sad...
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Ziad Burjony
This would be really helpful, especially as we come to grips with perspective and using multiple views within views and trying to figure out the best folder structure.
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Ben Wildes
Marked as ignored by IA
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nick.minchin
Ben Wildes: lol, probably way too hard
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Ben Wildes
nick.minchin: They only swat the lowest hanging fruit these days, just look through the completed list of tasks and nearly every request is <10 upvotes and they are things like 'Acknowledge receipt of uploaded certification test', 'Question wording is misleading' and 'Assess spelled wrong in question'....
Becoming a bit of a joke now
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Anthony Ho
And also fix the historical logging at the same time so we don't have to run the stored procedure every single time.
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Ben Wildes
Is there ever a chance this could happen or is it a bridge too far now? Not being able to move or rename tags (realistically) is by far my biggest gripe with Ignition.
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Tyson Bunker
This would be amazing!
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Nathan Wells
Yes, this would be great
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Eric Matschke
Yes, please do this. Indusoft (by Wonderware) does this great. As someone here said, projects and systems evolve and its nice to be able to fix them retroactively.
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fredm999
Yes! While we're at it: How about global Search and Replace? And if you get a message about a 'broken' link, how about the ability to go to the object that contains it?
Robert McKenzie
fredm999: There is a global search and replace already in the Designer. You can learn more about it in the User Manual: https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Find+and+Replace
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camichae
Learned something new today. Mind blown now.
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nick.minchin
Robert McKenzie: it doesn't have an option to search global templates though. Idea for this here: https://ideas.inductiveautomation.com/ignition-features-and-ideas/p/allow-find-replace-on-global-objects
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Ben Newman
Robert McKenzie: It would also be really nice if the Find/Replace didn't cause the designer to hang for actual minutes at a time when it is renaming 20 items........
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