Customize and Use Wiring Equipment Categories - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

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Smart Instrumentation provides you with a number of predefined wiring equipment categories. However, you can also customize your own wiring equipment categories for wiring items that do not belong to any existing categories.

This procedure explains how to customize a wiring equipment category and add a customized property to a category. Note that some of the shipped wiring equipment categories have predefined properties. You can add your own customized properties to the shipped categories as well as to the customized ones.

After customizing a new wiring equipment category, it becomes available in the Categories list of the New Wiring Equipment dialog and you can create new wiring equipment items belonging to this category.

  1. On the Wiring module menu bar, select Tables > Wiring Equipment > Categories.

  2. In the Wiring Equipment Category dialog, select New.

  3. In the New Wiring Equipment Category dialog, type a category name and description.

  4. To select a user-defined icon for the current wiring equipment category, under Icon file name, select Browse to navigate to the icon file that you require.

    The icon that you select will appear in the Domain Explorer or the Reference Explorer next to each wiring equipment item belonging to the current category.

  5. In the Properties group box, select Add.

  6. Under Header, type the text that will appear as the property name on the Category Properties tab of the appropriate wiring equipment properties dialog.

  7. From the Type list, select the type of value for the new customized category property. You will then be able to enter a value for this new property on the Category Properties tab of the appropriate wiring equipment properties dialog. The values can be numeric, text, or date/time.

  8. Select Add to define another new property.

    OR

    Select OK to accept your definitions and close this dialog.

  9. Create a new wiring equipment item. In the Domain Explorer, right-click a panel or a panel child item, and then select New > Wiring Equipment.

  10. In the New Wiring Equipment dialog, from the Category list, select the newly created category, type the wiring equipment item name, and select OK.

  11. On the General tab of the Properties dialog, define wring equipment properties as you require and select the Category Properties tab.

  12. On the Category Properties tab, enter the values for each property as you require,

  13. Continue defining the properties of the new wiring equipment item as you need.

    The software does not allow you to delete or rename the shipped wiring equipment categories. Nor can you delete or rename any of the predefined properties belonging to the shipped wiring equipment categories.