Use the following guidelines when naming your plant, or top-level hierarchy items, which will be used in an integrated environment. These limitations are imposed by the authoring tools and the database software. For these guidelines, "plant" is used as an example of a top-level hierarchy item.
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Do not use special characters at all in any part of a plant name or plant breakdown structure such as area or unit. These include .<,>^=+:?|/';{}[]~`!%*()&$@#".
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A warning message that the characters are invalid is displayed if you use any special characters.
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The plant name is case-sensitive and cannot exceed 52 characters if Smart Instrumentation will be participating in integration.
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The plant name must be unique within the current domain. This limitation is imposed by Smart Instrumentation.
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We recommend that the Smart Instrumentation domain schema name and domain name match the plant name.
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We recommend that the plant name be the same name across all authoring tools.
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You can use digits and spaces within the body of the plant name, for example Plant 1. However, spaces are treated the same as underscores; so, if you name a new plant with a name that already exists, but use a space or an underscore to differentiate, an error message will state it is already in existence. For example, Plant 1 and Plant_1 are considered the same.
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