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Smart Interop Publisher is a database-oriented application and uses Microsoft's SQL Server technology as the means to set up model data organization, storage, and retrieval. You can create one or more SQL Server instances, which allow you to organize site databases for various applications. Use the default instance for Smart Interop Publisher, or you can create an instance dedicated for Smart Interop Publisher. To install and configure an instance in SQL Server, see the Intergraph Smart Interop Publisher Installation and Setup Guide.

Each SQL Server instance can host one or more site databases. Smart Interop Publisher requires you to create at least one site database, which you can do using the IOP Home Menu > Options Menu > Configure Site Database Command. A site database for Smart Interop Publisher contains a custom Smart Interop Publisher projects database. The Smart Interop Publisher project provides the way to organize source files, Smart Models, and Smart Drawings for a particular plant or section of a plant. You can create a project containing Smart Models that can be used or shared in multiple site databases. When you create a project, all project information is defined in the corresponding project database file.

Although the basic hierarchy is SQL Server instance > Site Database, you can create and set up site databases and projects to meet any modeling requirements. From using a single, simple SQL Server instance > Site Database > Project setup, to a data organization with different site databases and projects hosted by different SQL Server instances, you control the level of complexity.

The following figure shows a SQL Server instance hosting two site databases containing projects (A-D), Smart Models, and Smart Drawings. Project C.mdf and its Smart Models and Smart Drawings reside in both site databases.

The first time that you open Smart Interop Publisher, you must select the SQL Server instance to serve as the host, and then create a site database. See Configure a site database.

The Projects View lets you see, at a glance, the projects you created and the host SQL Server instance name and the path name of the site database. You can also use the sorting options provided in the grid to organize the view. For example, you can sort on the SQL Server instance name so that you can see all projects associated to each instance you have.

See Also

Organize Your Work with Projects
What are Smart Models?