4. Long Point IDs/Mixed Case Support

Long point IDs with mixed case support provide the means to create detailed descriptive names, when necessary.

However long point IDs

  • Require more considerations (e.g. where the point ID will display relative to monitor width) than simple short point IDs (32 characters or fewer).

Note: There are best practices that are recommended when they apply to your system requirements.

  • Are not universally supported.

Note: CIMPLICITY automatically generates a short internal point ID for each manually created long point ID. When necessary any short point ID/long point ID combination can be reviewed.

4.1 Long point IDs/Mixed case support: Best practices.
4.2 Long point IDs/Mixed case support: idt files.