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Is it possible to read additional tag information/metadata like Description through PTC Kepware Products?

Modified: 25-Mar-2025   


Applies To

  • Kepware Server (formerly KEPServerEX) 6.0.2107.0 to 6.17
  • ThingWorx Kepware Server (legacy) 8.0 to 6.17

Description

  • How to read additional tag information like Description
  • Missing description on OPC client
  • Tag descriptors are not passed on to Client applications
  • Data collection interface for OPC UA require to read the Tags Description from Kepware OPCUA Server for dynamic tag maintenance
    •  When connecting to Kepware OPCUA Server, we can see the data without issue but once we browse the tag attributes, the description field is empty even if a description clearly exist for each tags defined in the Kepware Project (Using Kepware Configuration utility)
    • Can this feature be enabled? 
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