Tagging Objects on the Schematic

To see the current list of tags for an object, move the mouse over the object in the Schematic and its tags, if any, will be displayed alongside the object's name in the status bar at the bottom. For example, move the mouse over South City and the status bar will display: Demand Site "South City"; Tags: Municipal, Big City, South.

There are several different ways to add or remove tags from objects on the Schematic. To add or remove a tag from a single object, right click on the object and choose "Add Tag to Object" or "Remove Tag from Object" from the popup menu. To quickly add or remove a tag from several different objects, click the plus () or minus () icons on the Tag Toolbar (located below the list of background layers to the left of the Schematic), select the tag to add or remove, then click on every object for which you want to add or remove that tag. When you are done tagging, click the or icon again, or hit the Escape key, to exit tag mode. Remember that you can see what tags an object currently has by moving the mouse over it and looking in the status bar at the bottom. As you click an object to add a tag to it, the status bar will instantly update to indicate that the object now has the new tag.

When you add a tag to a Demand Site or Catchment, every descendent of that Demand Site or Catchment will also get the same tag. For example, tagging South City will also tag South City\Single family, South City\Multi family, South City\Single family\Showers, South City\Singe family\Washing, etc. The same is true for removing a tag from a Demand Site or Catchment -- it will also be removed from all descendents. An exception is for rivers -- if you add (or remove) a tag from a river, such as Weaping River or Blue River, it will NOT add (or remove) the tag to the nodes on that river.

Important: Because WEAP can use tags to group and subtotal results, do not assign more than one tag from the same category to an object. If you do, you might double count the results. For example, if you assigned tags "South" and "Central" to Demand Site South City, both of which are in the same category (Location), South City's results would be counted in both the South and the Central tag results, if you chose to view results by tag. WEAP will check for this situation and warn you in the Results View.

Tag Toolbar

To copy the tags from one object to other objects, you can use the Tag Painter, which is similar to the "Format Painter" in Microsoft Word. Click the tag painter icon () in the tag toolbar, click on the object whose tags you want to copy, then click on every object for which you want to add the tags. When you are done painting, click the paint brush icon again, or hit the Escape key, to exit paint mode. You can also right click on an object and choose "Tag Painter" from the menu.

You can add or remove a tag from a group of objects all at once. To select multiple objects, hold down the Alt key as you click and drag on the main schematic to draw a rectangular grouping box around the intended objects. (To create a non-rectangular shape, hold down both the Control and Alt keys when you click. Thereafter, each click will create a new point of the shape. Double click to finish it.) When you release the mouse button, a red box will appear. Right click inside this red box and select "Add Tag to All Objects in Selected Group" or "Remove Tag from All Objects in Selected Group." Choose the tag to add or remove from objects in the group inside the red box. Note: If the red box encompasses any objects that are temporarily hidden, they will NOT be tagged. Hit the Escape key to cancel without tagging.

The Add, Remove and Paint options are also available on the Main Menu Tags menu. This menu also includes one final method for tagging objects. The menu option Tags, Export to Excel can be used to make a quick report of all tags on objects . This is also an easy way to edit tags for many objects at once. Edit the list in Excel, then choose the menu option Tags: Import from Excel to read in the edited list. When you Import tags from Excel, WEAP will add the tags listed in the spreadsheet to the list of tags already existing for an object. (And a tag added to a Demand Site or Catchment will also be added to all of its descendents.) It will not remove any tags from an object unless the list of tags read from Excel is blank. In this case, WEAP will remove all tags from the object. You can also use this method to create new tags -- any tag imported from Excel that does not already exist will be created, with Color = White and Category = Uncategorized.

To edit the master list of tags, click the gear icon () to access the Manage Tags screen, or the main menu option: Tags, Manage Tags...

Menu Option: Tags