Before you can publish and retrieve documents from any of the other authoring tools, such as Aspen Basic Engineering or SmartPlant Instrumentation, you must register each plant in with a SmartPlant Foundation database. The connection allows SmartPlant P&ID to display the SmartPlant integration commands. A SmartPlant Engineering Manager administrator typically registers plants.
The software maps a plant and all its projects to a single SmartPlant Foundation URL, which points to one, and only one, SmartPlant Foundation plant database and its projects. When you use the Register command in any of the authoring tools, you are registering an authoring tool plant with a SmartPlant Foundation URL and plant that you specify.
The system administrator must register each plant in the authoring tool once; this action takes place in SmartPlant Engineering Manager. After the plant is registered, you can publish and retrieve documents.