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Forms serve the basis for creating specifications. Forms can consist of one or more data pages and always contain a note page. A form must contain at least one data page. You might design a form based on more than one page, for example, for a field device that has both electrical and mechanical connections, requiring separate pages for wiring connections and line-related fields. Smart Instrumentation is delivered with a library of predefined forms bearing the names of their default pages.

You can manage spec forms in the Specifications module, using the Form Editor options. You can change form properties, such as name, description, and number, save a form either as a new form or as a spec page to fit your own conventions.

After defining the form pages, you can create specs based on this form. If you want to generate a multi-tag spec containing a page where you can display values of individual instruments. You must first create a multi-tag spec format based on a particular form. You can create other types of specs by assigning a Smart Instrumentation item directly to the number of the appropriate spec form. When you assign a form to an item and generate a spec, the software creates the spec pages according to the pages that the source form contains. You cannot modify the data fields in the form itself, only in the form pages, which you can open in the Page Editor.

It is possible to create multiple templates for a specific form and then, when generating a spec, assign the item to the form data template rather than to the form. You can then copy data from any other template based on the same form to the current spec, and even copy data from the spec to any of these templates.

  • To view special characters in specification fields, for example & (ampersand), you must use two characters to view the one. For example, if you want to display &U&, then you need to enter &&U&&.

  • The character ~ (tilde) cannot be placed in specification fields at the end of a string, you must place another character after the ~. Without the extra character the field does not appear in the specification.

  • To use double quotes “” at the begging of a field, you must enter a space before the quotes. For example, instead of “A dimension” you enter <space>”A dimension”.