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In your Engineering Environment, navigate to Edit > Tags. You should see a tab called Providers.

Click on the Create New TagProvider "Create new..." button to open a dialog window. Select a Communication Protocol from the list, and define its name.

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After you select a Protocol, you will see a configuration table with columns that are similar to the ones in the Channels, Nodes, and Points pages. However, the columns will all be grouped on a single page. For this example, we will use MQTTspB.

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The column configuration settings are detailed below:

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The Primary/Backup Station will be configured according to the communication protocol. For more information, please refer to the specific protocol documentation.


The functionalities of the 4 buttons at the top are listed below:

  • Create new: Create a new Provider connection.
  • Browse Values: Search for the tags and values in the IP connection from PrimaryStation.
  • Import Model: It will create a device from this provider. You can do this manually going in Edit > Devices, but using this button is faster.
  • Help: This button directs you to the respective Provider document selected.

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