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  1. In Options Manager, select Settings and set the value for the Enable Plant Editing setting to Yes.

  2. In the Engineering Data Editor, choose an item type from the Engineering Data Editor select list, for example, Pipe Run.

  3. Ensure that Active Drawing is selected to display properties of the items that appear in the drawing you are currently viewing.

  4. Select Other Drawings to display properties of the items that appear in all the non-active drawings in the plant. Selecting this option also displays items in the drawing stockpiles of the other drawings.

  5. Edit the data in the cell (field) in accordance with the data type:

    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.

  • The ability to perform Plant Editing for non-active drawings only applies to the default Engineering Data Editor window. Editing item properties of non-active drawings is not supported in a new Engineering Data Editor window that is opened using the Window > New > Engineering Data Editor command.

  • While you are editing an item that belongs to another drawing, other users will only be able to open that drawing in read-only mode. In this case, the other user will receive a message that the drawing is open; (in Drawing Manager, the Accessed By field for that drawing shows the person who has the drawing open). To make the other drawing editable for other users, you must move the cursor out of any Engineering Data Editor row representing an item in the drawing. If the drawing is open as read-only, it will have to be re-opened in order to be editable.

  • 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.

  • In a project, you cannot perform Claim / Release Claim operations in the Engineering Data Editor for items that belong to other drawings.

  • Editing items from other drawings clears the Undo buffer for the active drawing.

  • Editing items from other drawings creates out-of-date model items, which can be updated using the Out-of-Date Drawings > Update command. See Update Command (File > Out-of-Date Drawings Menu) in Drawing Manager Help.

  • If you use Plant Editing to change a property value in a non-active drawing, propagation occurs according to the System Editing rules defined for the plant and the Engineering Data Editor display is automatically updated. This includes propagation of data between non-active drawings across Off-Page Connectors (OPCs) when both drawings involved are not opened by a user. Propagation does not occur across OPCs between the active drawing and a non-active drawing.

  • In the OPC view in the Engineering Data Editor, it is not possible to edit OPC properties in non-active drawings; however, OPC properties in the active drawing or in the plant or active drawing stockpiles can be edited.

  • 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.

Certain restrictions exist for editing items in the Engineering Data Editor where those items belong to other drawings. These restrictions are summarized in the following table.

Condition

Appearance of Item in Engineering Data Editor

Notes

Drawing was already opened by another user or drawing file (.pid) does not exist

Read-only according to the user's Display Settings

Another user opens a drawing or drawing file (.pid) was deleted during the current session

Normal read/write appearance

If you attempt to edit an item, the software displays a message that the item's information has changed. After you select OK on the message box, the software refreshes the Engineering Data Editor and items belonging to that drawing will be displayed as read-only.

Drawing was deleted from the database or fetched version of a drawing does not include an item displayed in the Engineering Data Editor

Normal read/write appearance

If you attempt to edit an item, that row is deleted from the Engineering Data Editor display. If you refresh the display, all affected rows are deleted.

The items belong to a drawing in a project and have not been claimed or have been only partially claimed to the project scope

Read-only according to the user's Display Settings

System Editing will not apply to those items

In a connected Workshare environment, the drawing’s status is Subscribe Access

Read-only according to the user's Display Settings

User has opened multiple drawings and the item belongs to a non-active drawing for that user

Read-only according to the user's Display Settings

None of the above conditions apply, but a particular item property is read-only

Read-only according to the user's Display Settings

As an example, in the Plant Item view for a non-customized plant, the Item Tag property is not editable for pipe runs but it is editable for piping components. Likewise, Insulation properties are not editable for a jacketed pipe run (until that pipe run is defined as jacketed according to the setting for the plant).