Follow these steps to retrieve data from Smart Instrumentation:
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Open Smart Electrical.
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Select SmartPlant > Retrieve.
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On the Retrieve Document Dialog, type the path to the folder where the source .xml files containing the published data are located, or select Browse to navigate to the folder.
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From the Document list, select a document to retrieve. The software automatically retrieves the appropriate .xml files associated with the document that you select.
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Select SmartPlant > To Do List.
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On the To Do List dialog, highlight one or more tasks (hold down CTRL for multiple selection) and on the toolbar, select one of the following icons:
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- Runs the selected tasks.
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- Defers the selected tasks.
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- Deletes the selected tasks.
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- Displays the properties of the selected tasks.
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The software retrieves data into the appropriate plant groups at various levels of the plant hierarchy, regardless of the plant group that you are currently logged in to.
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When you run a task that creates a new cabinet or instrument, the software changes the value of the Override FLA calculation property to Manual to ensure that there is no inconsistency between Smart Electrical and Smart Instrumentation for the values of the Full load current property.
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If you view the properties of a Create task, the destination item tag is the same as the source item tag until you run the task. After you run the task, the destination item tag receives the appropriate Smart Electrical designation.
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It is possible for Smart Instrumentation users to delete items that originated from Smart Electrical, such as signals. In this case, when data is next published from Smart Instrumentation and retrieved into Smart Electrical, the software creates Delete tasks for those items on the To Do List dialog . If you do not want those items to be deleted from the Smart Electrical database, you should select
to remove the task from the To Do List dialog .