The Plant Breakdown Structure (PBS) must be registered with SmartPlant Foundation so it can be used with any integrated tools. Once the PBS is registered, each authoring tool must be registered with the SmartPlant Foundation plant before you can publish and retrieve documents. When you register an authoring tool, this allows the authoring tool to display the SmartPlant commands and registers the authoring tool with the SmartPlant Foundation plant. After the plant is registered, you can publish and retrieve documents.
The following table displays the main interaction stages using the Register command.
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Result |
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User clicks SmartPlant > PBS > Register. |
Type the node name and virtual directory of the SmartPlant Foundation database to which you want to register your PBS. |
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User clicks SmartPlant > [Application Type]> Register. |
Type the node name and virtual directory of the SmartPlant Foundation database to which you want to register your authoring tool application. |
The Register command maps the authoring tool's plant and its projects to the SmartPlant Foundation plant using a URL.
Each authoring tool contains the following commands for integration on the SmartPlant menu:
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Register
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Publish
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Retrieve
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Find Documents to Publish
When a user in one of the authoring tools clicks one of these SmartPlant commands, the authoring tool interacts with the SmartPlant Common UI component. Depending on the command, the authoring tool sends an appropriate message to the Common UI component, which does the processing and displays the dialog boxes for user input.