Select ISODEP to Export

You can only select to export a MDB, which means that all of its ISODEP’s are exported, or you can select specific Sites of the selected MDB.

By default when the AVEVA NET Export - Main window is displayed, the current MDB is selected as the item to be exported, this means that all of the sites in the MDB would be exported.

To warn you that the whole of the MDB is selected, the text Unset (Output all MDB) is displayed next to Change Selection.

1. If the MDB is not the one to be exported, you can change it by selecting any of the other available MDB’s under the MDB list.

2. If the selected MDB has a number of Sites, and you only want to export specific ones, you can change the selection by clicking Change Selection, this will display the VNET Export - Item Selection window.

   

   The VNET Export - Item Selection window lists all of the current MDB’s items in the left hand list, and the currently selected Items to Export in the right hand list.

   Note: If the left hand list is empty, it denotes that the whole MDB is selected.

3. To add and remove items to export, use the forward and backward functions, or use the right mouse click menus.

4. When you click OK, the VNET Export - Main window will display the text Selected XX item(s). (XX is the number of items selected) next to Change Selection.

   

5. To generate the output files, click Apply. The progress of each stage of the export is displayed in the Progress frame of the VNET Export - Main window.

   

   A progress bar at the bottom of the main window displays the progress of each stage of the task.

   

   The output files will be of the form SPLDRG_<SPLDRGName>_VPDSPL.xml, where < SPLDRGName > is the name of the PDMS SPLDRG.

   Note: Some characters that can be used in a PDMS name can not be used as characters in a file name so these are removed or replaced with other characters in the resulting xml file names.

6. Once the output files have been generated they need to be incorporated into a VNET Staging Area, so that they can be processed by the VNET Import Controller.

   If you have set the Export referenced items setting, then the referenced Design items main items will also be exported automatically using the principles explained in Export Design Items and Properties.