Possible solution for silent BAQ parameter passing (working now)

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@Chrisw

More to foogle? (Typo, but I like it)

Why foogle when I’m so quick?

Data Tags (SYSTAG) - an under-utilized feature in Kinetic

There is this feature that is in Kinetic called Data Tags… in my surveying of customers, I have found that it is one of those feature that people simply do not know about. The purpose of a data tag is to allow you to “tag” a record for easy lookup later. The retrieval of that record is done via search. a tag can be reused (ie… more than one record can use the same tag). Some facts: Data Tags are a way of adding additional "tag"s (indexed key) to nearly any record within Kinetic. Data Tags ar…

Uses for Data Tags?

Datatags can be used for so many things, and they are very underutilized. They are a VERY FAST alternate index to nearly any table… you can have multiple data tags for the same record, and multiple “owners” of those tags. One use that I have seen recently in combination with #AutomationStudio (by our friends @josecgomez and @hmwillett is to have a BPM create a special datatag when a specific thing happens. Then Automation Studio is looking for that datatag to be created, and when found, it read…

I use all 3 flavors:

@timshuwy

Note that data tags come in two flavors… “public” meaning that there is no owner, and “private” meaning that only the owner can see the tag… but in theory, there is a 3rd type, and that is “secret” which is a private data tag, but the user id is not a real user… you can only see the tag, and manipulate it via rest calls or C# logic.