Synchronize Another Tool Map Schema with Tool Metadata - Integration - Update 44 - Help - Hexagon

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Smart 3D Version
12.1 (2019)
Smart Construction Version
2019(7.0)
SmartPlant Foundation / SDx Version
10
Smart Electrical Version
2019 (9.0)
Smart Materials/Smart Reference Data Version
2020 (10.0)
Smart P&ID Version
9 (2019)
Smart Review Version
2020 (15.0)
Smart Engineering Manager Version
10 (2019)
Smart Interop Publisher Version
13.1 (2019 R1)
Smart Isometrics Version
7.0(2019)
Spoolgen Version
9.0(2019)

When you first connect to SmartPlant Foundation, you can select the authoring tool that you want to synchronize. To synchronize another authoring tool, use the following procedure.

  1. On the Active or Mapping tabs, click Edit Engineering Tool Options SPF Schema Ed Edit Eng Tool Options ICON.

  2. Under Engineering application/map schema, select the authoring tool and tool map schema that you want to work with in the Schema Editor.

    SHARED Tip The authoring tool that you want to define mapping for must be registered with the selected SmartPlant Foundation site and plant to appear in the Engineering application/map schema list.

  3. Under Startup options, select the Load map schema check box.

    The software automatically selects the Connect to application schema check box because the Schema Editor does not currently support working in disconnected mode with metadata adapters. In a future release, disconnected mode will allow users to modify the tool map schema without connecting to the tool's metadata adapter, which means that no synchronization will occur.

    SHARED Tip For specific details about what types of objects that you can edit in the authoring tool via the metadata adapter and how save works for the tool's metadata adapter, select a tool and then click the Details button.

  4. Click Finish to review synchronization details in the Synchronize dialog box.

    • Connecting to the metadata adapter and generating a comparison of the tool metadata and the tool map schema can be a time consuming task, depending on your computer memory and processor speed.

    • When you click Finish, the Schema Editor generates tool schema objects from the tool metadata in the tool database and compares them to the tool map schema file.

    • If no changes have been made to the authoring tool metadata or the tool map schema since you installed the software, there may no differences to synchronize.

    • Once you are familiar with synchronization and the default actions for the authoring tool you are working with, you may want to select the Automatically synchronize schemas check box before you click Finish to avoid reviewing synchronization results every time you load a tool map schema and tool metadata.

    • You can click Save to Excel to save the synchronization results to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

  5. In the Synchronize dialog box, select the appropriate action in the <Tool> Database or <Tool Map Schema Path> column in the appropriate row for the change to update inconsistencies between the tool metadata and tool map schema. Default actions appear in blue in the appropriate column and row for each difference.

    Some applications do not support both possible synchronization actions that appear in the Synchronization dialog box. For example, Smart P&ID does not support deleting existing properties or enumerated lists. If properties exist in the Smart P&ID tool metadata that are not in the tool map schema, then the missing properties must be added to the tool map schema. They cannot be deleted from the tool metadata database. If you select a synchronization action that is not supported by the selected authoring tool, the Schema Editor displays a message box to let you know that the action is not supported.

  6. Click OK to synchronize the tool map schema and tool metadata.

    SHARED Tip After you synchronize the last tool map schema, the Map Environment appears.