Is there a way to assign a point an alias or "human readable name"?

[psysak]

I'm working on templatizing a solution to something I'm working on and basically the end result will be that I gather several different parameters, calculate one single final value and display that to the user. I have a naming convention for all my points which makes it easy to bulk edit and keep things straight, but it's not very human readable, it'll be something like prefix/site_number/reading/units. It would be super helpful if I could assign something like a second name to the point such as 245 Street Dr kWh Consumption

Anything like that exist by any chance?

[psysak]

I guess I could use the export ID as the naming convention and name would be human name

[phildunlap]

@psysak said in Is there a way to assign a point an alias or "human readable name"?:

I guess I could use the export ID as the naming convention and name would be human name

I definitely think that's the way to go about it, and then you can do things in a script like...

var dataPoints = DataPointQuery.query('like(xid,prefix/site_number%)'); 
//then iterate over the list, get the dataPoint.runtime object to use it like a context variable if not null

[psysak]

Hopeless humans, how will they ever survive :)

This brings up an interesting point, is there such as thing as a debug window for the scripting? Like something I could use to monitor the values of my variables? Right now when I'm doing scripting and I need to see something I'll put a RETURN var; at the top of my script just to see what it spews out. Any way to see the values of all variables at once?

Thanks Phil

[phildunlap]

Have you used the print() function? You can also use LOG if you want it to go out to a file. See the Mango JavaScript help document for information about LOG: https://help.infiniteautomation.com/about-mango-java-script/

print(contextPoint.getDataPointWrapper().getExtendedName() + " has value " + contextPoint.value + " at time " + contextPoint.time);
//note that if you got it from DataPointQuery, it would be...
print(contextPoint.getExtendedName() + " has value " + contextPoint.runtime.value + " at time " + contextPoint.runtime.time);

[Jared Wiltshire]

@psysak The good news is that data point tagging will be coming soon (v3.3.0) for the very reason you have described.

[psysak]

@jared-wiltshire said in Is there a way to assign a point an alias or "human readable name"?:

@psysak The good news is that data point tagging will be coming soon (v3.3.0) for the very reason you have described.

Very cool!