Tags are identifiers that you can assign to users or devices. You can employ tags in two situations:
- Assigning tags to a user: By assigning tags to a user, the user will be able to see only devices with the corresponding tags. The devices must contain all of the tags that the user has, in order for the devices to appear in the list of the user’s devices.
- Assigning tags to devices: By assigning tags to devices, you can create a group of devices. You can then perform commands (send messages, send files, perform updates, etc.) on a group, and these commands will be executed on all of the devices in the group.
Assigning Tags to Users
An administrator will have the ability to assign tags to a Radix Device Management Platform user.
To assign tags to a user:
1. In the User Profile menu in the lower left corner, click on Users to open the Users Management Menu.
The Users Management Menu opens.
2. Use the Search bar to find the specific user to whom you wish to apply tags. In our example, we have located the user, Zeev Kamen.
3. When we click on the row of that user, the User Profile screen opens.
4. At present, this user does not have any tags assigned. When Zeev looks at the devices enrolled in his account, he will see all of the devices:
If the administrator assigns a tag to Zeev’s account, Zeev will only be able to view the devices that also have this specific tag assigned to them. To assign a tag, type the name of the tag in the textbox, and press Enter. In our example below, we assigned the tag “aep” to Zeev.
5. Click Update to confirm the change to Zeev’s user profile.
6. When Zeev now clicks on Devices in the Radix Device Management Platform, he will only see the devices with the tag “aep”. Thus, Zeev only sees 5 devices in his list.
7. We see that some of the devices have the tag “aep”, as well as another tag.
If the administrator assigns another tag to Zeev’s profile, that will further restrict the number of devices that Zeev will be able to see in his account to only the devices with both of these tags.
8. We will add the tag “new” to Zeev’s profile.
9. When Zeev looks at the list of devices in the Devices Table, he will only see four devices (those devices with both tags “aep” and “new”.
10. Note that the device “Laplace” has many additional tags.
Nonetheless, Zeev can still view this device and send commands to it, since the device has been assigned the tags that Zeev has.
Assigning Tags to Devices
As we have seen, assigning tags to devices will limit the devices that a Radix Device Management Menu user will be able to control. The user will be able to only view those devices that have all of the tags that have been assigned to that user.
Another use of tags is to create a device group. You can also create a group of devices by assigning a tag to several devices.
To add a tag to a device:
1. In the Radix Device Management Menu, click on the Devices icon in the side panel to open Devices Table.
2. Select a device, or several devices, by checking their checkbox in the far-left column. In the example below, we selected three of the four devices in Zeev’s Device Table.
3. Click on Bulk Actions>Device>Set Device Tags:
4. Enter the name of the tag that you want toapply to these devices, click Enter, and press Confirm. You can add several tags this way. In the example below, we add the tag “January” to the three selected devices.
5. If we refresh the browser and look at the list of devices, we see that the tag “January” has been added to the three selected devices (as well as two other devices that already had the tag “January”).
Creating a Device Group
If we wish to group the devices with the same tag, we have to create a group.
To create a group of devices:
1. Click on the Devices icon in the Radix Device Management Menu sidebar menu.
2. In the Devices Table, click on Groups to open the Groups pane, if it is not open already.
3. In the Groups window, click on the Add group icon.
Here is a table that explains the Groups window options:
| Icon | Description |
| Search group by name | |
| Refresh the list of groups | |
| Information about the Groups option | |
| Add a new group |
The Create new group window opens.
4. Assign a name and description to the group. We will call ours “January_group”.
5. Click on the Tags icon in the sidebar menu. A window opens allowing you to assign tags to your group.
6. Add the tag “January” and click Save. This will associate any devices with the tag “January” with our new group.
7. If we now search for the group January_group in the Groups window, we will find our new group that we have created.
8. Click on the group name. The Devices Table will display the three devices in “January_group”.
Sending a Command to a Group
Once we have created a group, we can send a command to all of the devices in that group. We will illustrate this with the “Send Message” command.
To send a command to a group:
1. Click on the Devices icon in the sidebar menu to open the Devices Table
2. Click on Groups in the far right to open the Groups window.
3. Use the Search bar to find the group to which you wish to send the command. We will apply our command to the January_group devices.
4. Click on the three-dots menu next to the group name and select the desired command: Deploy>Messaging.
5. Select an Advanced Message from the repository and click Apply.
The devices in the group will receive the message.
Deleting a Tag
To delete a tag, we select the device which contain the tag and select the Remove option. We can also delete tags from several devices at once, or from all of the devices in a group.
Deleting a tag from an individual device:
To remove a tag from an individual device:
1. Click on the Devices icon in the sidebar menu, to open the Devices Table.
2. Select the device from which you would like to delete a tag.
3. Click on the Device>Set Device Tags command. In the example below, we will delete a tag from the device YEHUDA_PC.
4. If you wish to delete a tag, click on the on the tag. In the example below, we will delete the "30" tag from the device.
5. Click Confirm. The tag is removed from the device.
Deleting a tag from several devices
We can also delete a tag from several devices, by checking their checkboxes and using the Bulk Actions button at the top of the Radix Device Management Menur.
To delete a tag from several device:
1. Click on the Devices icon in the Radix Device Management Menu to open the Devices Table.
2. Click on the checkboxes of the devices from which you wish to remove tags. In our example below, we will remove tag from the devices “Newland POS Black” and “Newland POS Aqua".
3. Click on Bulk Actions>Devices>Set Device Tags with the Bulk Actions button at the top of the page.
4. Enter the name of the tag that you wish to delete, click Enter, and then Confirm. In the example below, we will remove the “January” tag from the two devices we have selected.
When we refresh our browser, we will see that the two devices no longer have the “January” tag.
Deleting a tag from a group of devices
We can also use commands on an entire group and delete tags from all of the devices in the group.
To delete a tag from all of the devices in a group:
1. Click on the Devices icon in the sidebar menu to open the Devices Table.
2. Click on Groups to open the Groups window.
3. Find the group from which you wish to remove a tag. In our example, we will remove the tag “January” from the devices in “January_group”.
4. Click on the three-dots menu to display the actions that you can perform on the group and select Devices>Set Device Tags.
5. Select Remove to remove a tag.
6. Enter the name of the tag that you wish to delete, click Enter, and click Confirm to delete the tag from the devices in the group.
7. Since we have deleted the tag “January” from all devices in “January_group”, the group will now be empty of any devices: