Tagging Devices and Layouts

Tagging devices and layouts facilitates online management of large installations. It provides a helpful way to sort, manage, and schedule devices and layouts with a high degree of control over content being sent to individual or groups of devices. Tags are similar to, but more specific than groups and are generally used to describe and manage devices and layouts with more granularity. Tag-based configuration is also more powerful than groups because a single device/layout can have more than one tag. Tag-based configuration allows devices to essentially be in more than one group.

After devices and layouts are tagged, you can filter by tags to view, edit, or schedule only devices and layouts that share selected tags. This is useful to narrow and manage long lists of devices/layouts and also makes it easier to locate devices/layouts in large installations. (See Viewing and Managing Devices and Using the Layouts Screen in the User's Guide)

To add or delete tags:

1. Click the 

   

    icon and select Administration from the navigation drop-down menu.
2. Click Configuration on the toolbar and then click Set-Top Boxes on the sidebar.
3. Scroll to the bottom to view the defined tags for the HMP domain.
   • To add a new tag, click in the Tags text box, type in the tag name, and press Enter.
     

     

   • To remove a tag, mouse over the name and click the

     

      icon.
4. Click Save Settings. Keep in mind that the Save Settings button applies to both default settings and tags.

The newly created tags are now available to assign to devices/layouts and then to filter the displayed list.