Article - CS321242
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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