Run Tasks from the To Do List - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

You run tasks to create, update, or delete data in the Smart Instrumentation database with data from a retrieved document.

1. Click SmartPlant > To Do List.

2. Select a Document Type tab.

3. Select the items with tasks that you want to run.

   

   • You can select more than one task by selecting a task and then pressing and holding the CTRL key as you select more tasks or you can select all the tasks on the tab by pressing CTRL + A.

   • You can select tasks from more than one Document Type tab before running them.

   • Before running tasks, you can select a filter to run only tasks that meet certain criteria, for example Update tasks only.

4. On the To Do List toolbar, select Run .

   

   • After running the tasks, an icon appears next to each task indicating if the task was completed successfully or not.

   • Completed items are removed to the Inactive Tasks tab, the next time you refresh or open the To Do List.

In the event of Smart P&ID failing and a restore is carried out on the database, Smart Instrumentation creates in the To Do List, Delete tasks (not Update) for those instruments created in Smart P&ID after the last restore point was created. You must decide if the Delete tasks are valid before running the tasks.

• When creating process data for which minimum, normal, and maximum values of a property apply, the unit of measure must be the same for all conditions. For example, if the property being created was for pressure the unit of measure would have to be Bar or PSI it cannot be a mixture of both.

• When retrieving loops without equipment and tag numbers with equipment and then running a task that creates a relation between the loops and the tag numbers, you must ensure that the loop equipment is not set to propagate to the tag numbers by default, otherwise, the empty loop equipment value will overwrite the existing equipment values for the tag numbers. To do so, before running the task, open the intools.ini file, and under the [Index] section, type the following line:

  LoopNoPropagateCheck=1

• When retrieving pipe line data from Smart P&ID to Smart Instrumentation, where the pipe line name already exists in Smart Instrumentation, the software creates a new pipe line with a new name and adds tasks to the To Do List. If you want to retrieve the pipe line data without creating a new pipe line, you must add to the Intools.INI file under API the following string:
  DisableLineNameModifications = Y.

• When a task fails the Smart Instrumentation informs the user of the supposed reason and grants the user the option of rerunning the task. The user takes care of the problem, selects the task, and reruns it.

• If Propagate carrier relation is selected in the Macro Expansion Properties dialog box and you change the carrier Status property, when you retrieve to Smart Instrumentation and run Update on that item, you are prompted whether you want to update the property Status of the additional items that have already been created by the macro. If no change was made to the property Status, no prompt is displayed.

• In the Flat or Task view of the To Do List the status icon is displayed when an Update, Delete, Overwrite, or Marked for Deletion task is applied to a carrier item (macro expansion). The carrier's sub-items are now displayed in the task properties as inactive (view only). Running the task only affects the carrier.

• A right-click menu is available for the Macro-Expansion Carrier Properties Sub-Items dialog box that contains the following commands:

  • Cut

  • Copy

  • Paste

  • Delete