String Input Properties - General tab

The following table shows options on the tab.
Options
Description
Tag
Type a tag name or placeholder or click the browse button
(...)
 to open the tag browser and select a tag from it.
Default data
Type the text that will be in the string input object when it is initially displayed.
Tab index
Either leave it as it is, or type a number lower than the default number in this field.
At runtime index numbers determine the order in which objects are selected using the Tab key. The recipe file also uses index numbers when it stores or retrieves values.
Security
Select a security code from A to P or * for the object.
Only those users who have been assigned the same code configured for the object will be allowed to change the tag's value. The default code (*) allows users with any code to change the tag's value. You can leave the default security until you have set up security for the project.
Display On-screen Keyboard
Select this check box to show a keyboard on the screen when you click or touch the object.
Caption Text
Type the caption text that will appear on the on-screen keyboard.
The caption is shown on the title bar. If it is longer than the width of the title bar, the caption is truncated at the end and show with an ellipsis (...). If you have added an embedded variable to the caption, the embedded variable syntax appears in the Caption Text field, but the text of the variable appears on the keyboard.
Insert Variable
Click this and select the type of variable you intend to insert into the caption text. After you set up the embedded variable, the syntax appears in the Caption Text field.
Continuously update
Check this to display changes to the tag's value in the string input object as they occur when the operator is not using it to enter values.
If this check box is cleared, any value typed in the string input object by the user, will remain displayed and waiting to be written to the tag until the user performs a download or presses ESC, which discards any user input. If the user performs an upload, a value from the tag is displayed in the input object.
Discard input and resume updating when focus is lost
When this option is checked, the input field discards any user input and returns to updating the object when it loses focus. This option is available when the
Continuously update
 option is selected.
Do not use this option with multiple input objects on a display, for example if the input objects are being used with a recipe.
Confirm and E-Signature settings
Select an option to configure the confirmation types before writing a value to a tag.
  • No Confirmation
  • Require Confirmation
  • Require E-Signature
  • Use Variable
     to use a tag or parameter to determine the confirmation types.
Remark
Enter a customized message that will be shown in the
Diagnostic List
 when downloading a new tag value in the string input object at runtime. This is helpful for monitoring and identifying operations that change tag values among a large number of diagnostic messages.
You can configure multiple languages for remark at design time. However, the remark message is only logged in the default language. For example, your application has three languages configured and the remark messages are also configured in those three languages. If the application's default language is English and the current language is Chinese, the remark messages are logged in the default language English.
The following placeholders are available:
  • /C
    Use it as a placeholder for the current value.
  • /N
    Use it as a placeholder for the new value.
For example, a message for changing the recipe file name from the current value to the new value could be
Change the recipe file name from /C to /N
.
If you want to switch the language of extended tag properties added by the
Insert Tag
 option, use
/L
 before the inserted tag without space.
Tip
: Semicolon (;) is
FactoryTalk View SE
's reserved character. If you want to use the semicolon in the remark message, you must enclose it in double quotation marks.
Insert Tag
Click and then select a tag from the
Tag Browser
 you intend to insert into the
Remark
box. The tag value will show as part of the customized message in the
Diagnostic List
.
For tags that are long and not easy to recognize, use extended tag properties, such as
{/Line1_Data::[CookieLine]Sample_DINT.@Description}
 to include the description of the tag in the message. You can also use tag placeholder, such as
#1
 in the message.
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