Custom Common Properties Forms - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

You can create custom common properties forms that you can use in addition to the standard built-in common properties dialog boxes in Smart Electrical. You can design your custom common properties form in any way that fits your needs. You can include as many property fields as you like as long as they appear in the Properties window for the item type for which your custom form is intended. You cannot include a property field that does not appear in the Properties window. You can create several forms for the same item type and all of these custom forms will be available for all the electrical items belonging to that specific item types.

Custom forms are created per user and these forms will not be available to other users unless you copy the SPELCustomForms.xml file and the project DLL file that you created in Microsoft Visual Studio to the same locations on your computer, namely, the Smart Electrical installation folder, for example:
c:\Program Files\SmartPlant\Electrical\Program\...

The customization process consists of the following two work flows:

1. Create a Custom Common Properties Form

2. Define Custom Forms in Smart Electrical

After completing these two work flows, you will be able to open either the standard built-in common properties form or one of the custom forms that you have defined for the current item type.