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Allows you to modify the data dictionary item type properties. This dialog opens when you select Edit > Properties while the main window displays Database Item Types. The title of this properties dialog changes depending on the item you selected. You can change the displayed name of the item type, group the properties, and assign permissions.

Property Name

Displays the item property name as it is defined in the database.

 When modifying item type properties, use the Modify <Item Type> Properties dialog box accessed from the Database Item Types display to change Display Name, Category, and Permissions. Use the Modify Property dialog box on the Database Tables tab to change all other editable properties.

Display Name

Specifies the name of the property that the user sees while interacting with the design (such as the Properties window, layout and filter properties, or Engineering Data Editor). By default, this field receives the value that was entered in the Display Name field in the corresponding database table.

  • The Display Name value must be unique with respect to all the properties that appear for a given item type with the Complete list option selected.

  • If a property exists at various levels of an item type hierarchy and the Display Name for that property has different values at one or more of those levels, the display name value that appears in the Properties window is the one assigned to the lowest level of the hierarchy; for example, in Smart Electrical, different display names can be assigned for certain properties at each level in the hierarchy: Equipment > Electrical Equipment > Load > Motor; however, when a motor is selected, the display names shown in the Properties window for those properties are those assigned to the Motor item type level.

Category

Specifies the category that you want to use to group the selected property. You can use categories to group and display properties with similar characteristics by category, instead of alphabetically, in the Categorized view of the Properties window. You can define additional categories in the Property Category select list, on the Select Entry tab.

Permissions

Defines permissions for the selected item type. These permissions control where users are able to affect change on that property. The following permissions are available for Smart P&ID:

Read-Only Both

Assign to properties that you do not want users modifying values for at all. System properties such as PlantItemType, SP_ModelItemID, and SP_ID are set to this by default because the system requires them. Serious data integrity problems can occur if you change these delivered system properties to something other than Read-Only Both.

Write Modeler

Allows users to modify the value only in the Smart P&ID modeler. In other words, the property is read-only in Catalog Manager. For example, if Flow Rate is set to Write Modeler, then the user can set a value for this property when placing a pipe run or a process pipeline in the Smart P&ID modeler.

Write Catalog

Allows users to modify the value only in Catalog Manager. In other words, the property is read-only in the modeler. For example, if you are defining a piping component type, you want to be able to set the value on the item symbol in Catalog Manager, but do not want a user changing the value when they place the item of this type in a drawing.

Write Both

Assign this permission to properties for which you want to set a default value in Catalog Manager but still want users to be able to change in the modeler when placing the item in a drawing. For example, use this setting for implied items so that you can provide default values that can be modified at placement.

If an item type property has Write Modeler or Write Both permissions in Data Dictionary Manager and a symbol belonging to the item type is changed in Catalog Manager, running the Update command on a drawing in Drawing Manager will NOT overwrite values assigned to this property with any default that may have been pre-defined in Catalog Manager. If the property permissions are Write Catalog in Data Dictionary Manager, Update will restore any default property values defined in Catalog Manager.

Certain symbol properties, such as the item’s Type, are hardcoded to be set at the Catalog level. Do not change the permissions for these properties, as changing these properties at the Modeler level can result in unexpected symbol behavior.

For Smart Electrical, the available permissions are Read-Only and Write.

Complete list

Displays all of the properties of related items.