The To Do List allows you to keep track of tasks required to keep your plant updated with information in an integrated environment. Specifically, this feature aids in retrieving data by providing a list of all the things that must be added, deleted, or modified to bring the plant data into agreement with the latest retrieved information.
All the users of a plant database share a single To Do List. You can view the entire To Do List and see the tasks that have been completed and those that are pending. Some types of tasks have associated code and when you run those tasks, the software modifies the database.
From the To Do List, you can run, defer, or delete tasks, or specify tasks that you want the software to ignore in future retrievals. Additionally, you can view properties for each task in the To Do List and, if required, specify that certain task properties are ignored when the task is retrieved. The information that is available is specific to the type of task that is selected: Create tasks and Update tasks, for instance, but certain information is provided for all types. The available task types are
Create
Creates a new item.
Update
Updates the selected properties of the specified item.
Delete
Deletes the specified item from the plant.
Each task in the To Do List has a status. Initially, the status is Open. If you successfully run the task, the status changes to Complete 
. If you attempt to run a task, but the process is not completed successfully, the
status is changed to Error 
. Error status occurs, for example, if you attempt to run an Update task assigned to a drawing that is not currently open. You can also postpone running
a task and change its status to Deferred 
.
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When an Update task is created in the To Do List, the units of measure used in properties are automatically converted to the defaults for the plant. The units of measure used for properties in Create tasks are converted to the plant defaults when the task is run.
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By clicking the heading of columns on the To Do List, you sort the list by the values in that column.
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Smart Electrical does not support task dependencies. For this reason, you must run Create tasks in the appropriate sequence for items that have a dependency relationship. For example, if the To Do List contains Create tasks for a motor and for some related process equipment, the software cannot run the task for the motor first because in the Smart Electrical database, the process equipment ID already appears as a property of the motor. You must first run the Create task for the process equipment, and only then for motor. In cases where the software fails to run related Create tasks, you can restore the tasks and run them again in the correct sequence.
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