About Configurations

A configuration contains information about how you want to publish your data to AVEVA™ Asset Information Management. Primarily, it contains the element types and their attributes that need to be exported. You can also specify the following information:

• Filtering criteria, if any

• Mapping for the classes of the element types in AVEVA™ Diagrams to their corresponding classes in AVEVA™ Asset Information Management

• Information such as context, characteristics, properties and associations for the elements to be exported

• Presentation settings such as colour and font mapping, hotspotting for the drawings and so on

• Exports options such as the location of the staging area, context configuration and logging

The configuration is created or updated when you click Save on the AVEVA AIM Export Setup window. A configuration may be used for any number of exports. You can also modify and delete the configuration according to your needs.

The gateway comes with a sample configuration called DefaultConfiguration. This configuration cannot be deleted. However, you can modify it according to your needs. For information on how to modify a configuration, see Modify a Configuration.

Important: The gateway does not validate the information you have provided while creating the configuration. Therefore, while creating the configuration, you must make sure that all values such as the filtering criteria, mappings, associations, PML expressions, IF conditions and so on are valid and meaningful to the AVEVA™ Asset Information Management user. Else, data may not be exported correctly or understood in the desired manner.