To publish or retrieve data, a tool needs to be registered with the data warehouse. This registration links the tool to the SmartPlant Foundation data warehouse server and a particular plant. A unique signature is generated each time a tool is registered. A tool must separately register each data warehouse plant it is to work with. This may be a single tool database managing multiple plants or separate tool databases for each plant depending on how the tools work internally. SmartPlant Foundation supports multiple plants, so each registration of a SmartPlant Foundation application uses a separate plant.
The registration process also compares the authoring tool’s schema release number against the list of supported release numbers on the SmartPlant Foundation server. If the tool schema is compatible, the tool is granted registration.
You can view and register the following tools with a selected plant if you have the respective roles:
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Plant Breakdown Structure (PBS) tool if you are a PBS administrator
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Instrument Process Datasheet (IPD) tool and Process Case tool if you are a process engineer
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Line List Authoring (LLA) tool if you are a piping engineer
Register a tool in the Web Client
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Select the plant in the Create Scope to which you want to register the tool.
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Click the Integration feature set, and select the tool you want to register with the plant.