Publish Data from Smart Electrical - Intergraph Smart Electrical - Help - Hexagon

Follow these steps to publish data for Smart Instrumentation. If you want to publish electrical equipment, follow the separate procedure Publish Equipment from Smart Electrical.

1. Prepare the data for the documents to publish by doing one or both of the following:

   • Create power-requiring cabinets or instruments by retrieving power elements from Smart Instrumentation and running the tasks on the To Do List for the retrieved data See Retrieve Data from the Smart Instrumentation Interface.

   • Create signals in Smart Electrical for items that you want to associate with control systems in Smart Instrumentation.

• Register a report template for each item type for which you want to publish data. See Register a Report.

  You can publish data for the following item types:

  • Cabinets owned by Smart Instrumentation (the software identifies these using a database flag).

  • Instruments owned by Smart Instrumentation (the software identifies these using a database flag).

  • Equipment (instruments and cabinets); the software does not publish other item types specified under Equipment. You can define your own document for publishing equipment data or you can use the shipped report, Instruments and Cabinets.xlsm, which is located in the folder where you install Smart Electrical Reference Data.

  • Electrical equipment, with or without I/O signals. You can define your own document for publishing equipment data or you can use the shipped report, IO Signals and Equipment.xlsm, which is located in the folder where you install Smart Electrical Reference Data.

  • SignalRun. You can define your own document for publishing I/O signal data or you can use the shipped report, IO Signal List.xlsm, which is located in the folder where you install Smart Electrical Reference Data. You can apply a filter to limit the scope of the signals to include, for example, only certain plant group types or certain I/O types.

  

  • When publishing data for item type Equipment, do not filter for cabinets or instruments. You can however, define a filter that limits the scope of the plant group type or the data subset.

  • Select an existing filter to define the scope of the data to publish. If you require, you can register the same report template several times with different filters; however, each registered report must have a unique name. See Filter Manager Online Help.)

  • You must select the Enable document for publishing check box to ensure that the software includes the data from the report in the generated .xml file when you publish from Smart Electrical.

1. In the Electrical Index, expand the folder hierarchy Documents > Registered Reports.

   Before publishing a document, you can specify its title and description by doing the following:

   1. Select the document

      

   2. Enter values in the Properties window as shown:

      

      These values will appear in the published .xml file.

2. Select one or more of the reports for which you have enabled publishing and select SmartPlant > Publish. You can also right-click the document, and then select Publish.

3. If you are working in File mode, on the Publish to File dialog, specify the folder in which to save the generated .xml files by typing the path in the Folder to save XML files box and if you require, change the default data file and meta file names.