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The Engineering Data Editor (EDE) provides you with a wide-angle view of your instrumentation data and allows you to browse through and modify items from a single location. EDE views enable you to copy and paste data, sort, filter, group, and search through your data.

There are several ways to generate an EDE View, depending on your need. The data populating the EDE View is retrieved from different sources in SmartPlant Instrumentation. In this tutorial we will focus on creating an EDE View from the query you created in Task 1 of the Query Builder section.

Follow these steps to generate an EDE View from a query.

  1. Open the Reference Explorer.

  2. Under the Queries folder, open the Query Builder folder.

  3. Right-click the Query you created in Task 1: Instrument Relationship, and on the shortcut menu, click Actions > Generate EDE View.


  4. In the View Properties (New) dialog box, in the Name field, type: Instrument Relations.

  5. Select the Suppress Repeating Values check box to remove duplicate values from your query results, if required. For example when the query involves wiring and their connections.

  6. From the View Type select. From the list, choose Instrument Index

  7. In the Description, it's optional to add information that defines this EDE View. In this tutorial we will leave it blank.

  8. Click OK.

Once the EDE View is created, you can find it in the EDE Explorer tab, under the folder you specified. In our case, the Instrument Relations EDE will be located under the Instrument Index folder.

  • The Published Document Type, is only enabled in an integrated environment.

  • The User Default View (optional), when checked sets this EDE View as the default EDE View every time you open the EDE.

    The View Properties for the newly created Instrument Relations EDE View, should look like this.

    The EDE window opens and a new EDE Actions tab opens next to the Domain Explorer tab.

    The EDE View you created: Instrument Relations, is displayed in a grid format.

    To open any existing EDE View navigate to any folder in the EDE Explorer and double click an EDE View.

    You can perform a number of actions on the grid. Continue to Task 3 to learn how to manipulate the data in the EDE View.