Allows you to load documents in bulk into SmartPlant Foundation using XML files.
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Click SmartPlant > Bulk Publish.
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Click Browse to select the Vault location.
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Click Get Publish List and browse to select <VaultName_BulkPublishDocList>.xml file to view the list of documents that you want to publish.
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The Documents to Publish option lists all the documents that you can publish to SmartPlant Foundation.
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Select the Document Type from the list.
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Click Publish All to publish to SmartPlant Foundation.
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The Quantity to Publish box displays the total number of documents that you can publish.
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The Success box displays the total number of documents that are successfully published to SmartPlant Foundation.
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The Failure box option displays total number of documents that have failed to publish to SmartPlant Foundation.
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Click View Log to display a log file for the publishing process in a separate window.
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Click Cancel Publish to stop publishing.
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To publish failed documents, click the button in the column header to filter by (failed documents) and then Publish All.
Bulk Publish using command prompt
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Open a Command Prompt window.
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In the Command Prompt window, change directory to the product directory, for example:
C:\Program Files\SmartPlant\SmartPlant Client.NET\SP Client Utility\
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Type the following command: SPClientUtility.exe /S <https://hostname/SPFSiteName> /U <username> /P “” / PLANT <SPFPlantName> / XMLFILE <VaultName_BulkPublishDocList.xml> / LOGFILE <Path of log file>.
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While launching the SmartPlant Client Utility from the command line, ensure that all parameters that begin with a slash ( / ) require a space between the parameter and the value. If the value contains spaces, it must be enclosed in double quotation marks (“ ”).
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PLANT name, S site path, and XMLFILE file name are mandatory parameters.
Logon parameters
Description
PLANT
Plant name
S
SmartPlant Foundation server site path
XMLFILE
Bulk Publish Xml File Path
U
User name. If site is Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) enabled, the software does not consider user name parameter.
P
Password
LOGFILE
Path of the log file. The log file records the status of published files. By default the log file is created at user’s temp location. You can change the log file location.
You can use “ “ format to pass an empty value for user name, password, and log file.