Disabling a datapoint

Disabling a datapoint

You can disable a datapoint in an instance to effectively inactive and stop it from extracting and storing data from the received payloads. You can disable a datapoint by editing it.

All Datapoint operations require necessary permissions. Refer User Profiles document for more details.

To disable a datapoint,
  1. Access the End Application.
  2. Select Devices > Devices in the left pane.You can select Assets to disable a datapoint template in an asset or Location to disable a datapoint template in a location.



  3. Click the name of the instance which has the datapoint. For this illustration, the device: My RPi is considered.



  4. Click Actions > Datapoint configuration. This opens the datapoint list view.



  5. Check the box next to the datapoint you want to edit and click Edit. For this illustration, the datapoint: Temperature is selected.



  6. Change the Status to OFF.



  7. Click Update.
The datapoint will now be disabled for that particular instance.

See Also
Adding and managing datapoints.
Understanding models and instances.


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