Within the Smart P&ID application, users draw graphical piperuns to indicate the schematic piping design. Users can assign naming properties to these piperuns. All of the piperuns with matching values for the naming properties form a logical group. Such a group is sometimes called a pipeline and the values of the naming properties represent the name of the pipeline. All of this is done without requiring the user to explicitly create a pipeline object.
In the SmartPlant Schema there is an explicit PIDPipeLine class. Objects of this class must be published with relationships to the associated PIDPipingConnectors. Some downstream applications depend on the existence of the PIDPipeLine for their processing.
The SmartPlant Adapter creates and deletes pipelines dynamically during the publish operation. The pipelines and the relationships to the piperuns are published as if they really existed in the Smart P&ID database. The Tool Schema contains a MapClass for PipeLine. The MapProperties for the pipeline MapClass define the properties that are published to the PIDPipeline object.