Allows you to select a reference plant group and then display naming conventions defined for various item types that exist in the reference data.
Apart from the options that allow you to select a plant group, item type, or convention label, all the options in this window are not accessible.
Plant group
Displays a reference plant group with data for which the naming convention applies. A plant group is a specific group available within a plant hierarchy, for example, Plant1, Area1, Unit1. Plant, area and unit are examples of plant group types. The available plant group types depend on the plant hierarchy you define in Engineering Manager. Selecting Browse beside the Plant group box opens the Select Plant Group dialog, where you can select a reference plant group for displaying naming conventions.
Item type
Allows you to select the item type for which you defined a naming convention, for example, motor, starter, cable, and so forth. The availability of item types in the list depends on the plant group type to which you assigned the item types in the Item Types Window.
Naming convention properties
The options under Naming convention properties are only available for item types that support multiple naming conventions, for example, the Cable item type. Multiple naming convention properties consist of a convention label, convention description, and priority number. For each convention label assigned to the item type, you can assign a filter and set segment definitions.
Convention
Contains a list of naming convention labels that you assigned to the item type selected from the Item type list. A label can be any name or can designate an actual item type category. For example, for the Cable item type, you can specify labels that designate cables with different functions: Power Cables, Control Cables, Grounding Cables, and so forth.
Priority number
Displays the priority number of the current convention.
Convention description
Displays the convention label description.
Filter
Displays a filter that is assigned to the naming convention label displayed under Convention.
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For an item type with multiple naming conventions, Smart Electrical filters the naming conventions automatically, depending on your filter settings, and creates an item tag according to the naming convention to which the filter is assigned.
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If no filter is assigned, Smart Electrical can only create a new item tag using segment definitions specified for the convention label that was created first.
Sample of item tag naming convention
Displays a dynamic preview of the naming convention using your definitions for each segment.
Segment definitions
Displays the characteristics and definitions of each segment in the naming convention. Each row of the table represents the definition of a single segment.
In Smart Electrical, each item type has a tag property Comply with Naming Convention, which determines the behavior of an item tag name. When the property is set to True, the protection masks and segment properties behave according to the item naming convention settings. When the property is set to False, you can edit the tag name value for the item freely. Whether you set this property to True or False, the software ensures compliance with uniqueness if you select the Is unique property in the Item Types window.
Segment Type
Indicates whether the segment is text or a property.
Property/Text
Displays default text if the segment type is Text or displays a property appropriate to the item type if the segment type is Property.
Protect
Shows whether a text segment is protected, in which case the user cannot change the values in the segment. All segments are protected by default.
Protection is useful to prevent the user from overwriting the segments. Protect the segments that contain fixed text or text that you want to use as separators. All property segments are protected by default.
Start
Shows the position of the character in the property name that appears at the start of the segment.
Length
Shows the length of the string starting from the value you specify in the Start column. For the Text segment type, the maximum length is 99 characters. For the Property segment type, the maximum length depends on the property definition in the Data Dictionary.