View Drawing Tags

Viewing drawing tags is easy and is the first step before you can link the drawing tags to vault documents.

To view the current drawing tag information for a document:

1. Choose between two options:

   • In Meridian Enterprise:

     1. Select the document that contains tag information that you want to view.

        For information on finding documents, see the Accruent Meridian Enterprise User’s Guide.

     2. View the tags that are currently linked to the document as described in View Linked Tags.

     3. To view the drawing tags found as block attributes in a drawing, click Drawing Tags.

        To view the tags found as plain text in other file types (if configured by a system administrator), click Text Tags.The corresponding page or dialog box appears and shows the tags that are found in the document.

        The Drawing Tags button is disabled in PowerWeb if the document is locked in the local workspace. This is because the document can be modified without detection by PowerWeb and invalidate the information shown by the dialog box.

   • In AutoCAD and MicroStation:

     1. On the Accruent menu, select Tags Dialog.

        The Drawing Tags dialog appears.

        The following table contains descriptions of each column.

        By default, a document's tag list is updated whenever the document is saved in AutoCAD or the Text Tags or Drawing Tags dialog is shown. To view updated Status information, such as after editing tag properties, click Refresh.

     2. To filter the list of tags on a specific value, select the value from the column heading's list.

     3. To see the equipment in the drawing that is associated with the selected tag data, click Zoom.

2. When you are finished viewing asset tags, click Close.

Tag columns

Column	Description
Tag Name	The text or attribute value found in current document by the last tag extraction. The value might have a prefix or postfix applied as configured by a system administrator. Consult a system administrator for the names of blocks and attributes or text patterns that are configured for asset tag extraction.
Tag Type	The tag type assigned to the asset.
Status	The status of the asset tag in relation to a matching vault tag. The possible values are described in the following table.
Inserted	Indicates an asset tag that was found in the current document.
Linked	Indicates that the current document is linked to the matching vault tag.
Tag	The name of a matching vault tag. These names are the same as the tags listed on the Related Tags property page.

The following table contains descriptions of the possible Status column values.

Status columns

Value	Description
No matching tag found	No matching vault tag could be found. To create and link a matching tag, see Create Vault Tags From Drawing Tags.
Not linked	A matching vault tag was found but the document has not yet been linked. To link the matching tag, see Link And Unlink Documents And Tags.
Mismatch found	A matching vault tag was found but the vault tag is not linked to the document and the tag type assigned to the vault tag does not match the asset tag type. To ignore the tag type comparison, disable Compare tag types (PowerUser) or enable Ignore tag types (PowerWeb). To correct the vault tag type, see View And Edit Vault Tag Properties.
Ok	A matching vault tag is linked to the document.
Coerced reference	A matching vault tag is linked to the document, but the tag type assigned to the vault tag does not match the asset tag type. To ignore the tag type comparison, disable Compare tag types (PowerUser) or enable Ignore tag types (PowerWeb). To correct the vault tag type, see View And Edit Vault Tag Properties.
Only in vault	A matching vault tag was found but the vault tag is not linked to the document and the tag type assigned to the vault tag does not match the asset tag type. To correct the vault tag type, see View And Edit Vault Tag Properties.