The approach for approval of data is to load the published data into a sub document configuration below the plant. This makes use of SmartPlant Foundation’s powerful concurrent engineering functionality where a user querying the document configuration can see the data loaded in isolation, in the context of existing plant data and compare the two. This is an optional step due to the size of some of the files, the time taken to load the data, and the amount of storage that it requires. This sub-configuration is named after the associated published document version and is used to load only items associated with it. The permissions of this sub configuration are automatically inherited and carried forward from the parent plant or project configuration.