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Enables you to define properties that affect the behavior and default graphical elements of each item type in use in SmartPlant Electrical. It is possible to open several instances of the Item Types window and tile them vertically or horizontally. This way you can conveniently view and manage properties of related item types.

If you open more than one instance of the window and make changes for several window instances, the software only applies changes in the window instance for which you last saved the data, and not in any of the other currently open window instances. Furthermore, the software discards any changes that you saved previously in other window instances. For example, you can open one window instance for buses and another instance for circuits. If you change a property value and save the changes in the window instance opened for buses, the changes do not appear in the window instance opened for circuits. If you now make a change in the window instance opened for circuits and save the change, the software discards all the changes you made in the window instance opened for buses.

Item Type

Allows you to select the item type for which you define the properties.

Property and Value

Contains item type properties and enables to specify a value for each property. You use item type properties when defining naming conventions.

Plant group type

Specifies the plant group type to which the software assigns the item type. For example, if you assign Plant as the highest plant group type for motors, whenever you create a motor in SmartPlant Electrical, it will belong to the entire plant. If you intend to register your plant with SmartPlant Foundation, you must make sure that you assign the appropriate item types to the same plant group type as in the tool you want to interface using SmartPlant Foundation. For example, in SmartPlant Instrumentation, cabinets and panels are always assigned to the highest plant group type.

  • A plant group type is a level of plant hierarchy. The available plant group types depend on the plant hierarchy you define in Engineering Manager.

  • After assigning an item type to a plant group type, you can define a naming convention for this item type in the Define Naming Conventions window and define default property values in the Project-Wide Parameters window.

  • SmartPlant Electrical displays items from all the units in a specified plant.

  • When you specify a plant group type for the Power Distribution Board (PDB) item type, the software automatically assigns all PDB internals such as buses, circuits, cells, fuses, circuit breakers, and so forth, to the same plant group type. You can only change the plant group type of PDB internals by changing the plant group type of the PDB itself. Other item types that inherit their plant group type from their parent item are, transformer components and circuit internals.

  • Metering equipment, even when part of PDB internals, have their own plant group type and do not inherit the plant group type from the PDB.

Item type uniqueness level

Defines the plant group type in which the item type tag must be unique per plant group. This command applies only if you set the Is unique option to Yes. For example, if you select Unit as the uniqueness level, then in a unit where you create the tag for the item type, this tag name must be unique. In other units in the same plant, you can use the same tag.

The available levels depend either on the plant group types or on the parent item types. See the Uniqueness Level Table table.

Default block

Indicates the drawing block file name that the software uses as the default symbol for typical schematic blocks.

Is unique

Indicates that the item type must be unique in a plant group that belongs to the plant group type you specify under Item type uniqueness level.

Item type identifier

Specifies a default prefix that the software uses in the item tag when you do not define a naming convention for the item type. The software uses the item name by default as the identifier.

Last created sequence number

Specifies a starting sequence number that the software applies to a new item. The software automatically increments this number by one each time you create a new item of the specified item type. The software also uses this sequence number in the item tag when you do not define a naming convention for the item type to enable uniqueness validation.

We recommend that you do not make the value of the next sequence number lower than the current value, to avoid the possibility of the software creating duplicate item tags.