Mass deployment of Model Tags

[dwaynelachance]

Hello,

I am a newer user of Thingworx. We have created an application which involves having our Model Tag on a Thing to browse it, however I'm having difficulties trying to deploy this to say 100 things.

My initial though was to utilise the Thing Shapes/Thing Templates, but that doesn't seem to work with Model Tags. So I wanted to see if someone could offer a suggestion for mass deploying a Model Tag to Things.

Thank you.

[PaiChung]

I think you are saying, you are using Model tags to Things and use that for grouping?

What is your use case that you chose this route?

[dwaynelachance]

Yes, it is essentially for grouping.

Our application will be monitoring Alerts, and instead of monitoring the alerts on all Things, we want to give the user the ability to specify which Things. We have done this by having our application look for Things that have our ModelTag/Vocabulary Term, so that when browsing Things in our application, it's a more filtered list. 

I originally wanted to use a shape/template and have the Things Inherit Model Tags. Is that possible?

[PaiChung · Accepted solution]

Tags would be a way to do this, you can also maintain a DataTable or a JSON list.

Another way would be a network.

ThingShape and ThingTemplate will not propagate tags, but also wouldn't necessarily make sense.

If you have a certain type of asset, that is usually defined by a ThingTemplate/ThingShape set, you wouldn't create Templates and Shapes user specific.

One additional way you can use is Organizations which is something used for Visibility.

[dwaynelachance]

Thanks, I'll look into the options you've mentioned.

[dwaynelachance]

We have decided to make a change and go with setting up a network. Thank you for the suggestion