Publish Documents from Smart Instrumentation - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

Display one of the documents from which publishing is allowed.

When publishing from an EDE view, the software publishes items based on the plant hierarchy defined in the Query Definition. To specify publishing of items at a particular level, define an EDE from Query Builder and specify a filter to publish at the required levels.

Go to SmartPlant > SPF > Publish.

Use the toolbar buttons to add documents to the Selected documents list:

• Engineering Tool Opens the Document Selection dialog for selecting documents. The Document Selection dialog shows all documents that have values for Document Number, Published Document Type, and Last Revision.

File System

Opens a standard Microsoft dialog that allows you to select files. When you select a file with this Select File dialog, the Document Properties dialog displays, allowing you to specify information about the file, such as whether it is a new file; the category, type, and subtype of the document; and the name, description, and title of the document.

Find

• Opens the Find Documents to Publish dialog, which allows you to search for documents. These are documents that have at least one revision and that were not published after creation of the last revision. See Find Documents to Publish Dialog.

The documents that display in the Selected documents list in the Publish dialog when it first opens are publishable documents that were selected within the authoring tool before you selected the Publish command.

• Edit properties as required for the selected documents. When multiple documents are selected, only property values shared by all the selected documents appear in the grid. Changing a value in the grid changes that value for all the selected documents. If you must remove an entry (or node) from the Selected documents list, select the node in the tree, and then select Delete .

From the Operations list, choose a publish method.

• Select Publish to immediately start the publishing process as soon as you select OK.

• Select Background publish to publish the selected documents immediately as a separate process, allowing you to perform other tasks at the same time. When you use this feature, an e-mail message alerts you when the process is complete.

• To batch publish to PDF, you must have in Smart Instrumentation > Preferences > General, selected a folder in the Output document folder field. Also in the Administration module > System Administrator in the User dialog box The IDEAL user check box is selected.

• If the authoring tool supports scheduled batch publishing, select the Scheduled publish option to indicate that the publish process should be run in batch mode.

Select OK to complete the publishing procedure.