# Customizing Text Tag Words

To customize (change) the text version message tags for a given RTU, either connect to, or work offline with the desired Catalyst. Select Messages from the Configuration menu. Click on the Tag Words button. The Tag Words dialog box will appear:

This section will explain how Tag Words are automatically appended to channel status messages to form a complete channel status report and to reflect the Channel State. Channel State is distinct from its current reading value.

From Alarmware™, you may make changes to the standard text version tag words (applicable to text reports, not speech reports) in order to better describe to operators exactly what the Alarm states represent in your particular application. Use the up and down arrows to view each Tag Word available for change.

Example for monitoring temperature:

1) Change the default Tag Words LOW SETPOINT to LOW TEMPERATURE.

2) Change the default Tag Words HIGH SETPOINT to HIGH TEMPERATURE.

3) Click OK.

All channels, which are in an Unacknowledged Alarm State, have the Tag Word "ALARM" automatically appended in channel status reports. In addition, all analog channels which have such an alarm tripped by violation of a high or low set point will have the added Tag Words "HIGH SETPOINT" or "LOW SETPOINT" inserted before ALARM in their channel status reports.

With the above changes, the Tag Words LOW TEMPERATURE ALARM (or HIGH TEMPERATURE ALARM) will appear in text version channel status reports for all analog channels.

At the RTU front panel or over the phone using touch-tone commands, you may also record corresponding alternative voice tag words, which will then be used in voice reports.