Name allocation manager migration utility

This utility is designed to migrate tags that were created in a project to Name allocation manager. It reads data from the project, sends it to Name allocation manager for executing the naming rule, allocates the name, and links the allocated name to the record in the engineering database.

How it processes in Engineering

For example, the user selects Pump naming rules to be re-executed including all instances and attribute values that are mapped to naming rule parts. Then sends a name allocation request.

Name allocation manager sends back the allocated names in response and replaces Name. For example, replacing 01P10 and 01P11 with 01-P-10 and 01-P-11.

It executes all other required processes in engineering to set the links between allocated name in Name allocation manager and the record in engineering. If names were previously allocated, then the administrator needs to use deallocate to remove the original names.

How it works in Engineering Configuration

The migration utility works with naming rules that have undergone name context mapping and type mapping and then is synchronised to the project being used.

1. On the Rules tab, in the Tag Naming group, select Execute Naming Rules to display the naming rules that have gone through type mapping.

2. Click the Select all check box for all the naming rules.

   

3. The utility reads the data from engineering and creates all the records for the selected naming rules. It processes the data and displays two log files. The logs show the total number of scanned records, the number processed and the number not processed.

   

4. Select Open log to view all the processed items and classes.. The log is tab delimited and can be opened in excel.

   

If a class has multiple naming rules and a single naming rule is selected, the selection will automatically extend to include all other rules within that class. These will be executed, and records created in Name allocation database.

Conversely, if a class has multiple naming rules and a single naming rule is deselected, the deselection will automatically extend to include all other rules within that class.