Concept
Energy Object Tagging
When configuring energy objects (sites and meters) you can attach (or remove) tags that enable you to categorize energy data in your customized energy reports. When you have attached tags in your site or meter properties, you can create a customized report in MS Report Builder and select the tags (as fields in the Query Designer) that you want to show in your energy report.
For more information, see Reports in Report Builder .
Tags that you attach to sites and meters are only available in energy reports that you create in Report Builder, not in the factory supplied energy reports in the Energy Monitoring folder.
When you install the Enterprise Server, a limited number of predefined tags are available for you to attach to your energy objects. You can remove predefined tags from energy objects, but you cannot delete them from the system. The following tags are the current predefined tags:
Enclosed Area
Open Area
Common Area
Rented Area
Lighting
Heating
Cooling
Ventilation
Water Heating
You can also define an unlimited number of new tags that you can also attach to energy objects. You can remove user defined tags from energy objects and you can also delete them from the system.
All energy object tags are contained in a Tags folder within the Reports Manager in the System Tree pane:
Tags folder containing user defined tags and predefined tags
In the example figure above, Tag and Tag_2 are user defined tags and all other tags are predefined tags.
All tags within the Tags folder are known as existing tags, whether predefined or user defined. All existing tags can be attached to energy objects.
When you attach a tag to an energy object, you use the energy object properties to either attach an existing tag, or you define a new tag. If you define a new tag, the tag is attached to the energy object and is also created in the Tags folder (and is now known as an existing tag). As you attach each tag, it is displayed in a list of attached tags.
New tags can be entered singly, but if you need to attach multiple new tags, an alternative, more efficient entry method exists.
Energy Monitoring Reports
Reports in Report Builder
WebReports Configuration
Configuring a Meter
Configuring a Site
Attaching a New Tag to an Energy Object
Attaching an Existing Tag to an Energy Object
Deleting an Energy Object Tag