Smart Instrumentation interacts with SmartPlant Foundation by correlating items between the plant database and the SmartPlant Foundation database, retrieving such documents as Cabinets, Electrical Signals, P&IDs, and the like from SmartPlant. Also, Smart Instrumentation creates a set of tasks in the To Do List that you can run to update the plant database. In Smart Instrumentation, you can also use the SmartPlant menu to publish documents and retrieve data, access SmartPlant Foundation to browse data, and subscribe to change notifications and compare documents.
You can only use the SmartPlant menu commands after the item registry has been activated and database items have been registered for use in an integrated environment.
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