Property Definitions

AVEVA Electrical supports user-defined properties for use when creating equipment datasheets and when defining equipment. These properties enable users to create meaningful attribute names for data that has no other logical property or field within the project database. Properties can belong to one of the following Property Type groups:

• Equipment Properties

• Process Properties

• Cable Sizing Properties

Once created, a new property can be assigned to a catalogue datasheet. When datasheets based on that catalogue datasheet are created, data can be assigned to that property.

New equipment and process properties will also be displayed on the Properties tab of the equipment details windows, enabling data to assigned to that property for a load, supply, protection device etc. New cable sizing properties and equipment properties marked as for use in external cable sizing will be displayed in the Cable Sizing dialog when conducting external cable sizing and values assigned to them.

Properties can also be added to data grids using the List Manager facility (refer to the Common Functionality User Guide for further information), and will be available as a DataLink to be assigned to drawings in the Electrical Designer module.

Note:
If the user has a Catalogue Datasheet open at the same time as creating a new field, the new field does not display until the datasheet is closed and then re-opened.

To display the Property Definitions window, select Setup > Property Definitions from the Project tab:

• Select Equipment from the Object Type list to view equipment properties, Process Data to view process properties and Cable Sizing Data to view cable sizing properties.

• Use the New button to create new property definitions. Continue at Add New Property Definition.

• Use the Edit button to edit existing property definitions. Continue at Edit Property Definition.

• Use the Delete button to delete property definitions. Continue at Delete Property Definition.

• Use the Merge Properties button to merge property definitions. Continue at Merge Property Definitions.

• Use the Import button to import property definitions from another project. Continue at Import Property Definitions.

• Use the Preferences button to set the suffix for the names of automatically generated units for process property definitions with units. Continue at Preferences.