Manage Groups

Use the Manage Groups window to choose which groups of configurations are to be compared.

Enter or modify the name of the group.

Select the Restrict this Group to Admin Users only checkbox to test it before making it available to the Project.

Use the arrow buttons to choose which configurations will be in the group.

A configuration can be in one or more groups and can also be available standalone if marked as such. When running a Compare operation, Users will be able to select from the available groups and standalone configurations.

Scope selection is available on groups for certain combinations of data. For example, scope by diagrams can be set on groups with schematic source and is active for engineering Users. When set the engineering User will be prompted to select one or more diagrams, limiting the comparison to engineering items that have equivalent schematic objects on those diagrams.

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In scope by source, the User can select one or more diagrams from all available, and this will have the effect of filtering the source objects according to those diagrams.

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In scope by destination, the list of diagrams to select from will be limited to diagrams relevant to the current list selection of engineering items. If this results in a single diagram, the User will not be prompted, and the comparison will proceed automatically.

To enable scope selection, click to select the Apply scope selection for this group checkbox and select the appropriate Scope Criteria from the drop down list.

Click OK to save the group.

If a group contains only Service Mode configurations, a common service setting is available for that group. This means the entire group of configurations will use a single login connection in place of the individual logins per configuration. To enable a common service, click to select the Use same service and Project for all the configurations in this group checkbox then enter the appropriate Server and Port settings.

Creating and editing group configurations in E3D 3.1.9 and newer versions

The user can create group configurations with the available DATA API configurations.

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During the creation of a new group or editing an existing group, only DATA API configurations are shown in the Available Configurations section of the form.

When the user tries to edit a group that was created in AVEVA E3D Design 3.1.8 or previous versions, a warning is shown. The user can choose to continue with the workflow, or stop it. If the user continues, if the Edit Group workflow was successful, all WCF configurations are removed and only the newly selected DATA API configurations will be available in the group.

Once the group configuration has been created or edited, the user can choose to run it.

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The user is only allowed to run either all-DATA configurations or all-WCF configurations. If a group contains a mix or DATA API and WCF configurations, the group configuration stops running.