Before you can publish and retrieve documents from any of the other authoring tools, such as Smart Instrumentation or Smart Electrical, you must register each plant in Smart P&ID with a SmartPlant Foundation database. You can also register a plant with an Aspen Basic Engineering™ (ABE) database. On registering your plant, the connection allows Smart P&ID to use the SmartPlant menu commands. Registration is performed by the System Administrator in Smart Engineering Manager and each plant must be registered once only in an authoring tool.
The software maps a plant (and all its projects for SPF, if appropriate) to a single integration tool URL, which points to one, and only one, integration tool plant database and its projects. When you use the Register command in any of the authoring tools, you are registering an authoring tool plant with the integration tool URL and plant that you specify.
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A plant can be registered with SmartPlant Foundation or with ABE, or with both.
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If a plant is registered only with ABE, only the To Do List command is enabled on the SmartPlant menu; all the other menu commands are disabled. If you subsequently register an ABE plant with SmartPlant Foundation, other relevant commands on the SmartPlant menu become enabled.