In addition to the Standard Workflows window, there are other Workflows dialog boxes that are used less frequently in the Schema Editor. These Workflows dialog boxes are arranged using a visual representation of supported workflows in the Schema Editor. You can open these Workflows dialog boxes by clicking the appropriate command on the Workflows menu in the Schema Editor.
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Basic Workflows - Provides access to functionality that basic users of the Schema Editor need, including opening schemas and a tool map schema. After you open a file or files in the Schema Editor, you can click the Actions button for the file type you opened to access the basic commands that users need to interact with the file. For example, if you click Actions under Schema, you can define the PBS hierarchy in the schema and edit schema objects and tool metadata.
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Overall Workflows - Provides most of the commands available on the Schema Editor's menus in a workflow format. The Workflows dialog box provides tabs that allow you to isolate the type of functionality that you need. For example, all the commands for interacting with the schema appear on the Schema tab. The Overall Workflows dialog box is accessible when you open the Schema Editor from the Schema Editor - Developer link on the Start menu.
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SPF Workflows - Provides access to functionality that a user needs to edit the SmartPlant Foundation schema in a non-integrated environment. You can also view the object contents of a configuration and edit those contents. Once you have made your changes in Schema Editor, you can validate the schema, then save your configuration and modified files.
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The tabs in the Workflows dialog box may change depending on your personalized menu configuration.
When you use one of these workflows, you can use a series of Open buttons to open different types of files, such as schema files, tool map schema files, and data files. These Open buttons appear above the file type that you can open using that button. For example, Open buttons appear above the Schema File, Tool Schema File, and Data File buttons to allow you to open a schema file, tool map schema file, and data file from the Overall Workflows dialog box:
After you open a schema file, other buttons in the Overall Workflows dialog box become available to you. For example, when you open a schema file, you can then compare it with another schema or open a tool map schema file or data file.
After you open a particular file type, the button for that type of data turns white. For example, if you open a schema, the Schema File button has a white background to indicate that you can interact with the schema file that you opened using the Workflows dialog box.
Some types of data are always available; therefore, the buttons that represent those data types always have light blue backgrounds. For example, when you open the Schema Editor, the meta schema and integration programming reference documentation are always available, which means that the Meta Schema button is always white and available.
Clicking the View button beside a button, such as Meta Schema or Schema File, displays the View dialog box for that type of data.
You can click buttons with white backgrounds to display a list of commands that are available for that type of data. These same commands are available on a submenu of the Tools menu. For example, if you click the Schema File button when a schema file is open, the software displays the following shortcut menu:
These commands are also available on the Tools > Schema (Active) submenu.
You can display or hide the Workflows dialog boxes using the View > Workflows command.