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Two possibilities are available for updating drawing item properties in the Engineering Data Editor:

  • Direct editing of properties

  • Copying and pasting property values

To display the data for editing, choose an item type from the Engineering Data Editor select list or ensure that Active Drawing is selected to display properties of the items that appear in the drawing you are currently viewing.

You can also display or hide stockpile items by toggling the Active Drawing Stockpile and Stockpile commands.

If a cell is populated by a read-only property or a property that is only automatically generated by validation, you cannot edit or paste data into that cell.

Edit the data in the grid

  1. Select any cell in the grid and enter your new content or change existing content as follows:

    • For text, select the cell and just type the required value.

    • For a list of values (or equivalent quantitative values with different units of measure), double-click the cell and select the required value from the drop-down list that becomes available.

    • For a field with a calculation command (ellipsis), double-click the cell and then select the ellipsis to open a dialog.

  2. When done, select outside the cell to exit Edit mode and save the contents.

  • When populating cells with numeric values, enter a number within the minimum and maximum values that an integer data type can handle; that is, between 0 and 2147483647.

  • If you change a property value of an active drawing item in the Engineering Data Editor and this causes other properties in the active drawing to be updated because System Editing or validation is activated, the software automatically updates the Engineering Data Editor display.

  • If a property value in the Engineering Data Editor is changed by the user or as a result of an automatic update and this property is used for sorting, the software does not update the sort order of the data automatically if the values are no longer in the correct order.

  • When editing the Plant Group Name property in the Engineering Data Editor or the Properties window, if identical plant group names exist, holding the mouse pointer over a selected value from the list displays a tool tip showing the plant group hierarchy path for that value. Therefore, if two units named U1 are available in the list, displaying the tool tip will show the different paths for the names; for example \A1\U1 and \A2\U1.

  • When editing a date field, selecting in the field activates the date picker window. It is not possible to type values in a date field. To clear a value from a date field, select in the field and press the space, Backspace, or Delete key. The same behavior applies for the Properties window.

Copy and paste data

You must exit Edit mode to be able to copy and paste data.

  1. Select the cell with the data you want to copy, right-click and select Copy on the shortcut menu.

  2. Select a target cell (single-click) or multiple cells (using the CTRL or SHIFT key) where you want to paste the data, right-click and on the shortcut menu, select Paste.

    • If you selected a single row as the source, you can paste the content of that row into multiple target rows (excluding the cells related to the item tag).

    • A red border appears around a cell if the copied contents cannot be pasted into that cell because, for example, the cell is read-only or the data type of the target cell is incompatible with the data type of the copied contents.

The copied information will be cleared (and so will the copy – dash indication) from the clipboard and not pasted in the following cases:

  • When the selected cell is in Edit mode (activated by double-clicking the cell).

  • When one or more of the changes are made to the EDE layout, such as editing the EDE definition, column addition, column re-ordering, splitting the screen, applying a filter, or sorting.

See Copy and Paste EDE Data - Troubleshooting.