After a tool (including SmartPlant Foundation) has been registered with the SmartPlant Foundation data warehouse, data can then be exchanged using the publish and retrieve options that are available within the SmartPlant Client.
In summary, the tool using SmartPlant Client publishes a document that is stored within the Data Warehouse shared domain until the appropriate action to load it is taken. This load process is described below in the data warehouse process overview. Once the document has reached this state, it is marked as now being retrievable by other tools. Providing the other tools have been registered and the correct access to the document types has been configured, these other tools can start retrieving this document (and the associated data).