The following flow of activities allows you to create soft tags their related instrument type, associate soft tags with loops, generate a loop drawing in Enhanced Report utility, and edit the drawing to display the soft tags properly.
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In the Domain Explorer, create a new loop or select an existing one, see Create a New Individual Loop Number.
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In the Symbol Editor create a symbol with a macro. For details, see Create a Custom Symbol and Add a Macro to a Symbol in the Symbol Editor help. You will later associate this symbol with a soft tag.
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Define a new instrument type for soft tags for example, ST. For details, see Define an Instrument Type.
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Create a new soft tag. For details, see Create an Instrument in the Domain Explorer.
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Set the new soft tag instrument type to ST.
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To associate the custom symbol with the soft tag do one of the following:
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Associate the custom symbol with the tag instrument type, see Set a Default Custom Symbol for Items Associated with an Instrument Type.
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Associate a custom symbol with the specific soft tag.
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Set the loop generation method to Custom By Loop or Custom by Signal to allow the software to use custom symbols when generating an Enhanced Report Utility drawing, see Loop Drawing Generation Methods.
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Generate an Enhanced Report Utility drawing for this loop, see Generate a Report for an Instrument.
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In the Enhanced Report Utility environment, press F7 to open the Domain explorer.
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Find the loop in the Domain Explorer. For details, see Using Search with the Domain and Reference Explorers.
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Drag the soft tag from the Domain explorer to the drawing. The selected tag can also be from a different loop.
The software automatically saves the position of the tag after you place it.
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Connect the soft tag to a conventional loop tag.
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Select File > Save Custom Changes.