To publish or retrieve data, a tool needs to be registered with the data warehouse. This registration links the tool to the SmartPlant Foundation data warehouse server and a particular plant. A unique signature is generated each time a tool is registered. A tool must separately register each data warehouse plant it is to work with. This may be a single tool database managing multiple plants or separate tool databases for each plant depending on how the tools work internally. SmartPlant Foundation supports multiple plants, so each registration of a SmartPlant Foundation application uses a separate plant.
The registration process also compares the authoring tool’s schema release number against the list of supported release numbers on the SmartPlant Foundation server. If the tool schema is compatible, the tool is granted registration.
