The SmartPlant Schema Editor allows you to perform various tasks required for configuring the SmartPlant schema and authoring tool map schemas for integration. The Schema Editor is also useful for familiarizing yourself with the SmartPlant schema and its class definitions, interface definitions, relationship definitions, and property definitions.
SmartPlant Foundation system administrators also use the Schema Editor to define the SmartPlant Foundation data model. Relationships between schema objects and other SmartPlant Foundation objects must be created in the Desktop Client, however.
Because there are so many different ways to use the Schema Editor, the Schema Editor documentation contains documentation for the most frequently used tasks in the Schema Editor. These tasks include:
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Using the most common Schema Editor views for the SmartPlant schema, tool map schemas, and data files
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Using file configurations to manage open files in the Schema Editor
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Using user interface configurations to customize the Schema Editor user interface
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Extending the SmartPlant schema
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Viewing and exporting authoring tool mapping
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Defining property mapping between authoring tool map schemas and the SmartPlant schema
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Comparing files
Depending on how you opened the Schema Editor, you may have opened a personalized menu configuration by default when you opened the software. The commands that you have access to in the Schema Editor depend on your personalized menu configuration. For more information about user personalized menus and the default Schema Editor roles, see Personalized Menus and Schema Editor Roles.