The assemblies or symbols created for the ABE items are sent to the Active Drawing Stockpile or placed outside the drawing frame in the active drawing. These can be viewed in the EDE by selecting any of the item type views under which they will be available. For example, if the created item is a Pump, it appears in the following EDE views: Equipment: Mechanical, Equipment, Representation, Plant Item, and Matching Saved Views. Therefore, you can select any of these views in the EDE to view the created items.
In the following example, the item type view is Equipment with the item type Pump as a symbol and also as an assembly.
The icon in the first column of the EDE grid indicates whether the created item is a symbol or an assembly:
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— Pump as a symbol
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— Pump as the main item of an assembly
Each of the created items has a Source Tag and an Item Tag property:
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The Source Tag is the ABE tag and is the same for all the related items.
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The Item Tag is a unique tag generated for each related item when the Create task is executed.
The Search, Filter and Sort operations can be performed on ABE items in the same way as they are performed on other Smart P&ID items.