System Tags and Don't Do's

Below are some topics of what not to do in FIN Stack. They can cause problems in the database such as something not appearing correctly or data not updating.

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Below is a list of System Tags that should not be used. If these tags are on any of your points or other locations you may experience weird issues or break things.

• site

• building

• floor

• equip

• schedule 

• program

• note 

• weather 

• rule

  alarm (potentially to be allowed soon with sensor tag, for now you can use alarmPoint or something similar)

• any of the conn

  marker tags

  marker tags

• topLevel

• unit (as a marker or empty string)

Connector Tags

Below is a list of other connector tags not to use when bringing in data into FIN Stack. You can add them afterwards.

• Room - if a point is tagged as "room" in Niagara and using the NHaystack connector, then trying to import this record into FIN Stack

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  will throw an error

  will be thrown

  that it can't due to that tag

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Special Characters

Supported characters:

• a-z, A-Z, 0-9
•  - (hyphen)
• _ (underscore)
• , (comma)
• : (colon)
• . (period)
• ~ (tilde)
• % (percent)

Supported but keep in mind that the value doesn't update in Flash DB Builder view when viewing it. Have to refresh the equip to see updated value. The value does update in HTML views such as Point Graphics, Graphics, etc.

•  ()     (parenthesis)
•  '     (apostrophe)
• &     (and)
• #     (pound)

Not supported. Do not use the following special characters when naming things such as:

•  /     (forward slash)
•  `     (acute/grave accent)

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Missing sensor/sp/cmd tag

Sometimes customers might remove one of the these needed tags for points or add more than one. Each point has to have either sensor, sp, or cmd tag. If you have more than one or none of those, you can use this tool to fix it: Fix Conflicting Tags.