Provides information that is common to all types of tasks and that concerns the source and destination of the information being imported as part of the task.
Item type
The item type that the software assigns to the item when entering the property values in the Smart Instrumentation database. Examples of item types are Instrument, Loop, Line, Equipment, and PipingPort.
Item properties
Displays the task data properties and enables you to select which properties to include when you run the task. For an Update task, only those properties for which the values have changed are shown.
Activate
Creates or updates the value in the database when you run the task. This option applies to Create and Update tasks only for which the status is New or Deferred.
Ignore
Ignores the new value of the property when when you run the task, unless the new value changes after subsequent retrieval. This option applies to Create and Update tasks only for which the status is New or Deferred. To ignore a property for the current retrieve session only, clear both the Activate and Ignore check boxes.
Property
The name of the item property as it appears in Smart Instrumentation.
New Value
The new value of the item property in the Smart Instrumentation database as indicated in the retrieved document. This column only appears if the task type is Create or Update.
Old Value
The current value of the item property in the Smart Instrumentation database. This column only appears if the task type is Update.
Previous
Displays the properties of the previous task in the to do list, where you select multiple tasks.
Next
Displays the properties of the following task in the to do list, where you select multiple tasks.
Show Dependent Relationship
Shows the previous task that needs to be run prior to running the current task; for example, to create a relationship between an instrument and its parent item, equipment, the software has to create the equipment, then create the instrument, and finally update the instrument properties to establish the relationship between the instrument and the equipment.