There are many domains delivered by default; the key domains for SmartPlant Foundation authoring are described here. For a complete list of the domains that are part of your SmartPlant Foundation environment, click Find > Administration > Domain.
SPFREFERENCE
This is a common domain. It contains classes for objects, such as the classification trees, that are used in both SmartPlant Foundation authoring and in the data warehouse. It references the SmartPlant Foundation domain that contains most of the SmartPlant Foundation classes that are used in both SmartPlant Foundation authoring and in the data warehouse, such as transmittals. The only reason to mention the SPFREFERENCE domain here is that it contains the SPFPlant class definition that makes up part of the PBS tree that is created in SmartPlant Foundation and published for retrieval by the tools.
They are what are referred to as ‘common’ domains in that they are used in both SmartPlant Foundation authoring and in the data warehouse.
SPFAUTHORING
This is an authoring domain; it contains the PBSAuthoringComponent and the SPFAuthoringComponent component schemas.
PBSAuthoringComponent contains the SPFFunctionalArea and SPFFunctionalUnit class definitions exposed in the Desktop Client tree view and used to author and publish the PBS hierarchy.
SPFAuthoringComponent contains the class definitions for data that is created in SmartPlant Foundation and then published, including the data sheet, list documents, and supporting objects such as adapter documents and registration objects.
InstD
This is an authoring domain that was delivered as a place holder for configuring instrument lists. It has been moved into the examples model area and not built into the delivered seed database from 2009 R3 SP2 onwards.
MechanicalD
This is an authoring domain delivered that is ready for the installation of the mechanical equipment data sheets from API.
ProcessD
This is an authoring domain. It supports the Instrument Process Data sheets (IPD). It contains the schema for the design basis document, instrument, process point, and process case class definitions. The actual data sheet document is defined in the SPFAUTHORING domain, but the data that is published can be in any authoring domain.
DWShared
This is the special data warehouse domain that contains the shared objects that link together all published data.
PBS
This is the data warehouse publish domain into which the PBS tree is published from SmartPlant Foundation for retrieval by the tools.
PD
This is the data warehouse publish domain into which the process instruments are published from SmartPlant Foundation using the Instrument Process Data sheets. Class definitions in the ProcessD authoring domain are mapped to class definitions in the PD domain.