This guide explains how to add, edit, delete, and manage datapoints and datapoint templates in a Zoho IOT application
Adding datapoints and datapoint templates
Datapoint templates are added/imported to a model, and the device, asset, or location instance created based on the corresponding models will include them as datapoints. Datapoint templates can also be added to a model after instances are created, applying them to all derived instances.
These are the following ways datapoints and datapoint templates can be add in the Zoho IOT application.
- Importing datapoint templates in a model
- Importing datapoints in the end application
- Importing datapoint template in a custom device product
- Adding a custom datapoint template to a model in the developer application
- Adding a custom datapoint template in the end application
- Adding a realtime datapoint template to a custom datapoint group in the developer application
- Adding a realtime datapoint template to a custom datapoint group in the end application
- Adding an instance specific datapoint
Managing datapoints and datapoint templates
Once a datapoint or datapoint template has been added the following operations can be done to manage them.
- Editing a datapoint template
- Editing a datapoint
- Disabling a datapoint
- Disabling a datapoint template
- Deleting a datapoint template
- Deleting an instance specific datapoint
- Marking a datapoint template applicable/not applicable