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When an item is placed in a drawing, the plant group type and the plant group name under which the drawing resides are assigned to the item by default. However, if you want to assign a different plant group type or plant group name to it, you can do that either from the Engineering Data Editor or from the Properties window.

You can assign a different value only to the plant group name, retaining the existing value for the plant group type. But if you assign a different value to the plant group type, plant group name is also assigned. Based on the plant group type you select, the system assigns the first value in the corresponding plant group names list as the plant group name. For example, in the following plant group hierarchy, we have three types of plant groups – plant, area and unit.

Plant Group Types

Consider a plant item placed under \A2\U3 which indicates that the plant group type of the item is Unit and the default plant group properties assigned are:

  • Plant Group Type - A2

  • Plant Group Name - U3

Now if you select the plant group type as Area, then A1 is assigned as the plant group name, as A1 will be the first name appearing in the plant group names list when you select Area as the plant group type. However, you can modify it by selecting desired value from the list.

The Plant Group Name property is dependent on the Plant Group Type property and hence the Plant Group Name property cannot be assigned until the Plant Group Type property is assigned. If you remove the Plant Group Type property, then Plant Group Name property is also removed.

Both the Plant Group Type and Plant Group Name properties have to be assigned for an item, therefore if the Plant Group Type property is assigned and the Plant Group Name property is not available or removed for an item, the software removes the Plant Group Type value as follows:

  • Active drawing and stockpile view: Whether the change is made in the Properties window or in the Engineering Data Editor, the Plant Group Type value is not removed while in the same drawing session. Refreshing the Engineering Data Editor does not remove the Plant Group Type value. Only closing the drawing removes the Plant Group Type value.

  • Other drawing: If Pagination is enabled in Engineering Data Editor, then toggling the Other Drawing view removes the Plant Group Type value. If Pagination is not enabled, then refreshing the Engineering Data Editor removes the Plant Group Type value.

When copying and pasting data between cells in the Engineering Data Editor where one property is dependent upon another, the higher dependent (parent) property must be in a column to the left of the dependency (child) property in the layout. For example, if copying both Fluid System and Fluid Code property values from one row to one or more other rows in the Engineering Data Editor, Fluid System must be located to the left of Fluid Code in the layout. Likewise, if copying Plant Group Type and Plant Group Name properties, Plant Group Type must be located to the left of Plant Group Name in the layout.