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Intergraph Smart Instrumentation Help

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The use of any special characters in an EDE Item, an EDE filter item name or as an EDE filter parameter, causes the EDE to display the wrong results.

The Engineering Data Editor (EDE) provides you with a wide-angle view of your instrumentation data and allows you to browse through and modify it from a single location in the application.

The application includes a number of predefined EDE views categorized by data type. Each of the predefined EDE views is associated with a Smart Instrumentation module but it is possible to present data from several different modules in a single EDE view. In addition to the predefined EDE views, you can create custom EDE views. You can group your EDE views according to their category. Such a group is referred to as an EDE View Type. You can create as many EDE View Types as you need, and move your EDE views around among the type groupings as seems appropriate to you. For more details, see Create an EDE View Type.

EDE views enable you to copy and paste data, sort, filter, group, and search through your data to see the specific data necessary for what you need.

You can perform additional actions to modify the way your data is presented in an EDE view. This includes adding more attributes to the EDE view, printing reports, and direct access to the Query Builder functionality. For more details, see Working with EDE Views.

  • User Defined Fields in EDE — You must fix any inconsistencies in User Defined Fields (UDF) before adding data to the UDF in an EDE. If there exists an inconsistency in the number of characters permissible in the field, failure to fix the inconsistency results in the software using the permissible number of characters as set in the database. Fixing the inconsistency after adding data can result in corruption of your data.

  • It is not possible to generate EDE views automatically for Specification, Data Dimensional and Piping data sheets, Document Binder packages, or Fieldbus Tag Number Lists. To generate those views use the Browser Manager to create a browser view. You access the Browser Manager from the menu Modules > Browser.

  • After upgrading Smart Instrumentation, an EDE View that was converted from a Browser View with complex filters rounds up any numeric values to the nearest two decimal places. For this reason, the EDE's filter may retrieve more data values than you originally had in the filtered Browser View. When you open a converted EDE View for the first time, you see the filtered numerical data in a two-digit (after the period) format. In addition, when you open the Complex Filter, the filter value entered is also converted to a two-digit format. If you want to re-populate your converted EDE View with the full set of data, clear the filter.

  • In an EDE based on a query using the Fluid State attribute, you should not clear the Fluid State value in the EDE. Clearing the Fluid State value causes loss of data from your Specification, Process Data, and Calculation sheets. Also, the Find window cannot find the tag containing the process data.