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Click File > New > MTR > Register Definition to open the New Register definition dialog box.
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Type a name and description for the register definition.
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Click Select next to the Register category box.
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In the Register category dialog box, select a tag register category that you want to associate with the register definition, and click OK.
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From the Report definition box, select the report definition you want to use to create the register definition.
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Only the report definitions that have Excel Register and ASCII as the output formats are available in the Report definition box.
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You must have access to the owning group to which a report definition belongs in order to view it in the Report definition box.
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If the selected report definition has Excel Register as the output format, the Indicate changes and Show comments with previous values options appear in the Register type section.
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Select the Identify missing mandatory data checkbox to view the mandatory properties that do not contain any values in the generated tag register.
You can configure the value that represents the missing mandatory data you want to
see in the generated tag register. By default, the value MISSING is used, but you
can replace this value with your own. For more information, see Configure Change Statuses for Registers.
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Under Mandatory properties, select the properties that you want to set as required.
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Select the Display unit of measurement separately check box to view the unit of measurement separated from its property value in the tag register.
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In the Excel Register output format, the unit of measurement and the property value appear in separate columns.
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In the ASCII output format, the unit of measurement and property value are separated by the selected delimiter, as defined in the report definition.
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Choose Full or Incremental only as the type of tag register to generate.
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Full tag registers display all the applicable tags for the specified tag type.
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Incremental only tag registers, when generated the first time, also display all the applicable tags for the specified tag type. However, each time the tag register is regenerated, the new version will include only tags that have been added, modified, or deleted since a previous version that you select for comparison.
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Select the Show change status column check box to display the change status column in the full tag register.
For incremental only tag registers, the Show change status column option is selected by default.
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Select the Indicate changes check box to view the property values of tags in different colors in the generated Microsoft Excel file.
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Select the Show comments with previous values check box to view the comparison version of the tag register value.
The Indicate changes and Show comments with previous values check boxes are selected if the register type is Full and the Show change status column option is selected or if the register type is Incremental Only.
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Click OK to save the changes.
The boxes marked with asterisk (*) are mandatory.