Follow these steps to publish equipment with or without signals for Smart Instrumentation.
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Select an item of equipment such as a motor or heater, and if required, add an I/O signal to it.
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In the Properties window, display the Allow Publish Flag property and set its value to True. Use the
Alphabetic toolbar button to display the properties alphabetically; the Allow Publish Flag property appears at the top of the list.
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Assign the equipment to a circuit and set the value of the Allow Publish Flag property of the circuit to True.
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Register a report for publishing as follows:
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Select Actions > Register Report.
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On the Register Report Common Properties dialog, beside Report template, select
and select IO Signals and Equipment.
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Beside Filter, select
and select Filters for Reports > EquipmentToPublish.
The EquipmentToPublish filter comes shipped with the software.
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Type a name in the Document name field.
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Ensure that the Enable document for publishing check box is selected.
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In the Electrical Index, expand the folder hierarchy Documents > Registered Reports.
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Right-click the document that you created and on the shortcut menu, select Open.
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In the Registered Reports folder, right-click the document again, and on the shortcut menu, select Document Properties.
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On the Document Properties dialog Revisions tab, select New.
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On the SmartPlant Foundation Revise dialog, beside Revision Scheme, select a value from the list.
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Under Revise in Tool, beside Major, select the value Next from the list.
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Select OK to implement the revision.
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Close the Revise and Document Properties dialogs.
Before publishing a document, you can specify its title and description by doing
the following:
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Select the document
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Enter values in the Properties window as shown:
These values will appear in the published .xml file.
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Select SmartPlant > Publish.
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On the Publish dialog, select one or more of the reports for which you have enabled publishing, and select OK. You can also right-click the document, and then select Publish.
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If you are working in File mode, on the Publish to File dialog , specify the folder in which to save the generated .xml files by typing the path in the Folder to save XML files box and if you require, change the default data file and meta file names.
If you publish an equipment item without a signal, you can create a signal (as an
Electrical Tag) and associate it in Smart Instrumentation.