This domain can be considered the core domain of the data warehouse and is used to store all published documents and hold all of the shared objects that point to all of the data that resides in the published domains. When a tool publishes data, a document is created in this domain in the specified configuration (Plant). Any files that are associated are also attached to the document in this domain. At this stage the document is "unapproved". This attached data can be directly loaded into the correct configuration or optionally loaded into a sub configuration so that the data can be validated ("approved").
After approval, the data contained in the associated files is loaded into the necessary tool domain, and a shared object is created in the shared object domain that points to the data in the tool domain. A SameAs relationship is issued when there is a common object used by multiple tools, and, rather than create a new shared object, a shared object that already exists is linked instead.
In order to achieve this objective, all objects and relationships loaded into the published domains also have a common interface (ISPFTEFPublishedItem) added that can be used for navigation purposes.
To prevent duplicating data between SmartPlant Foundation authoring and SmartPlant
Foundation data warehousing, there are a number of domains that can be considered
as “shared” domains. These are the Schema, Admin, SmartPlant Foundation, and SPFReference
domains.