These tasks deal with customizing the display of the spec page data fields and their headers using the Page Editor options of the Specifications module. On a spec page, you cannot select more than one field or header at a time for customization.
Use this procedure to modify the text that appears in the field headers. You can change the text itself, change the font characteristics: bold or not bold, italic, rotated (determine angle), text box size, text alignment, text color, and background color.
This procedure enables you to display fields whose table column status in the database is set as invisible. You can then modify these table columns using a PowerSoft editor, such as InfoMaker.
Define Fields with Computed Values
This procedure allows you to define and modify an InfoMaker eligible expression for a data field in the current form. Such an expression is referred to as a computed value. The field containing such an expression in Add Custom Fields of Wiring Equipment Items referred to as a computed field.
Display Revision Changes for Spec Properties
When you create a new revision for a specification sheet, you can show the revision number next to properties for which the values were changed at the last revision. To do this, you add a computed field for the property for which you want to indicate the change.
Use this procedure to format values of data fields. The format that you set for the data field names is used by Smart Instrumentation to display the field values in the specs based on a form containing this page. To differentiate among various data fields, you set left, center or right alignment, set font style and size, and set combinations of text and background colors.
Use this procedure to add data fields to a specification page that you open in the Page Editor. The fields that you can add belong to one of the following types:
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Standard (non-custom) fields appropriate to the process function of the open page (displayed by default in the Table Column List pop-up window)
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Process data custom fields (displayed in the Table Column List pop-up window after you regenerate the page)
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Specification custom fields (some displayed by default in the Table Column List pop-up window, with option to select additional fields from the Regenerate Page dialog)
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Standard fields available for all process functions (displayed on the Regenerate Page dialog, with option to select additional fields for display in the Table Column List pop-up window)
Duplicate Data Fields in a Page
This procedure enables you to duplicate a data field in a spec page. This way you need enter data only once for several identical fields in a page.
Use this procedure to delete an existing data field from a page. You can delete one data field at a time. Data fields that you delete reappear in the Table Column List pop-up window.
Add Custom Fields of Wiring Equipment Items
This procedure allows you to add custom fields of wiring equipment items in a spec page. Custom fields of wiring equipment items appear in the table APPARATUS. You can use up to 30 fields in a specification. The custom fields in the APPARATUS table are designated by column names from APPAR_UDF_C01 to APPAR_UDF_C30. The custom fields that you add in a specification page hold view-only values in an item specification that you create using this page as a source. Each custom field holds a user-defined property value of a customized wiring equipment category.
Add Function Block Custom Fields to a Fieldbus Spec
Use this procedure to add function blocks in spec pages of the forms that you can use as a basis for fieldbus spec generation. Three specification forms are available for fieldbus data: form 72 for instrument with the General process function, 73 for flow instruments, and 74 for pressure instruments. These forms contain a fieldbus page that includes data for shipped function blocks. In addition to these function blocks, you can create your own function blocks and add data for them to the form page. Before adding custom function blocks in the specification page, you must define them in the Instrument Index module. The order in which you define them determines the sequence number that they are mapped to when dragging the table columns onto the specification page. The shipped function blocks correspond to sequence numbers 1 to 21. Sequence numbers 22 to 40 are available for custom function block parameters.