In Smart Engineering Manager, when you associate a new plant hierarchy with Smart Electrical, if you already have existing plant data, you can specify an option to copy the reference data from an existing plant to the new plant. To do so, you first copy an existing plant structure, and then you load the reference data from the source plant. The copied data includes items from the Reference Data Explorer and some Options Manager settings.
At least one plant that is already associated with Smart Electrical for use as your source must exist in the Plant hierarchy tree.
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In Smart Electrical, open the source plant and create all the reference data that you want to copy (profiles, lookup tables, reference items, and so forth).
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In the Options Manager, make the following definitions for the source plant: Formats, Item Type Definitions, Naming Conventions, General Settings, Plant Default Preferences, and Plant-Wide Parameters.
The software sets the defaults for the locations in the target plant according to
the reference data path that you specify when copy the data (see step 12).
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In the Options Manager, select Options > Naming Conventions > Copy to Reference Data.
You must perform this step if you want to the naming conventions to be available
for copying when you associate the target plant with Smart Electrical.
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Open Smart Engineering Manager.
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In the left pane (tree view), select the plant that you want to use as the source plant.
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In the right pane, select the application, right-click, and select New Data Dictionary Template.
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Navigate to the path where you want to create a template (.ddt) file containing the source reference data and type a name for the file.
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In the left pane, create a new plant or select an existing plant that is not associated with an application. This will be your target plant.
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Right-click the Applications sub- folder for the target plant and select Associate Applications.
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Under Data dictionary source, select Use custom template.
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Beside Template path, select the ellipsis button
to navigate to the .ddt file that you created.
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To copy values to Options Manager Locations, on the wizard page with the title Enter the database server and user connection information for Smart Electrical schema, enter a path in the Smart Electrical reference data path box.
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On the wizard page with the title Enter the database server and user connection information for Smart Electrical reference schema, select the check box Load reference data from <plant name>.
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Complete the remaining pages of the wizard with the information that you require.
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In Options Manager, copy the naming conventions from the seed plant. For full details about copying naming conventions, see Copy Naming Conventions for Plant Group in the Options Manager help.