To enable your application to work in an integrated environment, you must do the following:
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Install the Schema Component and the SmartPlant Client, delivered with SmartPlant Foundation, on each application workstation. For more information about installing these components, see Install SmartPlant Schema Component and SmartPlant Client in the Desktop Client Workstation Setup.
Before you install the Schema Component and the SmartPlant Client, be sure to install
the software prerequisites described in the SmartPlant Foundation Desktop Client platform recommendations section of the Desktop Client Workstation Setup.
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Use a hierarchy that contains a minimum of three levels when you create your plant in Smart Engineering Manager.
In addition to requiring a minimum of three-levels in hierarchies, SmartPlant configurations
also require that the names of hierarchy items must not be changed after they are
created and that the hierarchy structure must not be modified after you create the
project. For more information, see Using Custom Hierarchies in an Integrated Environment in the Smart Engineering Manager Help.
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Associate applications with and assign user access rights to your plant.
When Smart P&ID and Smart Electrical are both enabled for a plant, they are both enabled for all projects in that plant.
If a project requires only one of these applications, create separate plants for each
application, then enable Smart P&ID for one plant and Smart Electrical for the other.
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Register your plant with SmartPlant Foundation. For details, see Register from Smart Engineering Manager in the Smart Engineering Manager Help.
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When you register your plant, you must specify the location of the Smart Engineering Manager schema map file (SPEMDataMap.xml). For more information, see Specify Map File Dialog Box in the Smart Engineering Manager Help.
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If only one application is associated with the plant at the time it is registered, only that application is registered. If another application is later associated with the plant, the Register command is enabled so that you can register the new application with the plant.
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