Configure Attributes to Export (Design , Hull Design and SPOOLER)

A number of attributes that items can have in PDMS are only relevant to the users of PDMS, and have no context to the engineering of the Project as a whole. To export these attributes can confuse users of AVEVA NET who do not understand PDMS.

To define which attributes are exported there is a configuration file where the attributes that the user wants included in the export must be defined. A file is supplied as default which has a number of the most common PDMS attributes listed in it which users would probably require within AVEVA NET.

Note: Within the AVEVA NET export files, the Attributes are grouped within a Characteristic element as Name \ Value pairs.

The configuration of the included attributes is configured by the defaults file DES-VNET-INCLUDE. The file contains a list of PDMS attributes in shortname format, which are to be exported against the relevant PDMS items. The standard file supplied with the VNET PDMS Gateway installation is located in the PDMSDFLTS directory,%PDMSUI%\DFLTS.

In order to keep standard (AVEVA) and user configurations separate, there can be separate DES-VNET-INCLUDE and SPL-VNET-INCLUDE files placed in the standard PDMS defaults areas. By default any user inclusion files found in default directories will override the supplied/standard inclusions file.

User inclusion files should have the same file name, and be placed into the following places, depending on the company standards for defaults. (This is standard to all other PDMS defaults file configurations.)

• The PDMSDFLTS directory holds company exclusions, which are available to all projects.

• The ABCDFLTS directory (where ABC is the project name) holds exclusions specific to one project.

• The PDMSUSER directory holds exclusions specific to a single user.