Publish Smart Documents - Intergraph Smart Interop Publisher - Help

A publish to SmartPlant Foundation performs the following:

• Publishes a visual representation of the Smart Document that can be used by downstream applications such as Smart Construction.

• Publishes associated data, depending on workflow approval. If the data is approved and loaded, it is used for reporting and subsequent retrieval by downstream applications when the authoring tools retrieve the latest data.

• Places the published .zvf file and supporting files in the appropriate SmartPlant Foundation vault.

To publish when you select both SmartPlant Foundation and Portal targets, Smart Interop Publisher requires a SmartPlant Foundation version that supports portal file types. To find this information, go to the PPM Smart Community and check Smart Interop Publisher on the Compatibility Matrix. If you do not have a required version, the publish to SmartPlant Foundation operation continues, but it does not publish portal files.

After you have published Smart Documents for the first time, new versions and revisions are created for subsequent publishing.

1. Revise Smart Documents (Optional) before the first publish.

2. Select the project containing the Smart Documents. Make sure the graphics and associated data files are in the same folder location on your system.

3. Select the Smart Documents to publish, and then click Publish . You can use CTRL+ or SHIFT+ to select multiple Smart Documents.

4. If you have a password set up to SmartPlant Foundation, you need to log in. Type in your User name and Password, and then click OK.

   Smart Interop Publisher displays the Publish Dialog. When multiple documents are selected, only property values shared by all of the selected documents appear in the table. Changing a value in the table changes that value for all of the selected documents.

5. Set the Workflow to AutoLoadPublish so that the document is loaded automatically into SmartPlant Foundation. Otherwise, it remains in the queue.
   -OR-
   From Operation, select Scheduled Publish to publish the Smart Document at a later time.

6. Click OK to publish the selected Smart Documents.

   SmartPlant Foundation provides a message to let you know if the publish was successful. You can look at the generated log file in the Smart Model ZVF folder.

7. In SmartPlant Foundation, search for your published Smart Document. Check the Data Load status to make sure the document has been published and loaded successfully and not queued before you can open it.