SmartPlant Foundation acts as a repository for data and a medium through which information is shared among other tools, such as Aspen Basic Engineering, Smart Electrical, Smart Instrumentation and Smart 3D.
Most of the commands that provide access to integration functionality exist in the common user interface available on the Integration menu in Smart Engineering Manager, Smart Instrumentation, Smart Electrical, Smart P&ID, and Smart P&ID Drawing Manager. You can use the SmartPlant Foundation Web Client to browse SmartPlant Foundation data.
For more information about setting up and configuring SmartPlant Foundation and integration, see the SmartPlant Foundation topics Application Server Installation and Setup for SmartPlant Foundation and Set Up a Desktop Client Workstation.
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You must install the Schema Component and the SmartPlant Client, delivered with SmartPlant Foundation, on your Smart Engineering Manager workstation before you can register or retrieve. See Preparing the Integrated Environment.
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On an Oracle platform, if using a single Oracle instance, the schema names, tablespace names, and user names must be unique in each tool and in SmartPlant Foundation. For example, if the schema name in SmartPlant Foundation is Site 1, any sites that you use with Smart P&ID or Smart Electrical must have unique names and these sites cannot be named Site 1.
Registering Tools
Before you can publish and retrieve documents from any of the authoring tools, such as Smart P&ID or Smart Electrical, you must register each plant with a SmartPlant Foundation database. The connection allows the authoring tool to use the commands on the Integration menu. A Smart Engineering Manager administrator typically registers a plant.
The software maps a plant and all its projects to a single SmartPlant Foundation URL, which points to one, and only one, SmartPlant Foundation plant database and its projects. When you use the Register command in any of the authoring tools, you are registering an authoring tool plant with a URL and plant that you specify.
The system administrator must register each plant in the authoring tool once; this action takes place in Smart Engineering Manager. After the plant is registered, you can publish and retrieve documents.