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The first time you publish a document, the software creates a new document master and the first revision in SmartPlant Foundation. A revision (major) is an officially recognized change to a document. A version (minor) is an intermediate update that you have published. Revisions can be published for sharing, or they can go through the approval process, depending on your needs. Each revision of a document can have multiple versions.

After the first publish of a document, the software creates new versions and revisions. Subsequent revisions are related to the master document and stored as revisions. Subsequent revisions are also published into a workflow, which may be a different workflow than the original publish. It is not possible to publish into a specific step of a workflow, so each overall workflow must be divided into logical sub-workflows.

Some tools, such as Smart Instrumentation, provide the ability to manage revision information and display it in the title block. When you enter the revision information (revision number, description, and so on) in the tool, that information is published with the document and is used to define the revision. If the tool does not provide this, you can select this information from the available list during the publish process.

Changes in the document status of a related revision change the status of the master document.

When you publish data from an authoring tool, you may not be able view all the properties that you published in the SmartPlant Foundation client. You can customize view definitions to allow you to see additional properties. For more information about defining view definitions in the SmartPlant Schema, see Create a View Definition.