Process Item Copy Wizard

Process Engineer also supports copying of multiple existing process items to create new items. The Copy Wizard enables users to step through all the selected item to enable renaming of the copied objects in a logical manner.

1. From the Process Equipment or Process Lines grid, select all the existing records that require copying.

2. Select Copy Selected from the dropdown list next to New on the Home tab.

   The first screen of the Copy window is displayed:

   

   The screen displays all the items that were selected for copying, grouped by tag format.

3. Select the + symbol to the left of each tag format to view details of each of the tags with that tag format.

   

4. To remove any tags from the copying process, uncheck their Select checkboxes.

   1. Uncheck the Select All for Copying checkbox to uncheck all Select checkboxes.

5. Before continuing, each selected item must be renamed by editing all or some of the tag number fields that make up a new, project-unique tag number, as displayed in the New Tag No fields.

   Invalid tag numbers (that is, tag numbers that are not unique) are displayed in red within these fields. As each tag number is changed, it is validated against the database to check its uniqueness. If validation is successful, the display of the tag number in the New Tag No field changes to green.

6. To edit the tag numbers in bulk instead of one at time, select the tags rows to be edited and click Edit Selected Rows (click Select All Rows to select all the rows). The Multi Field Edit (Bulk Edit) window is displayed:

   

7. Check the Select checkbox for all columns to be edited.

8. Enter the new values required in the Value columns.

   The Copy first record's Data option will copy the data from first record in selection into the window ready for editing. The data is not actually copied to the selected tags unless the Select checkbox is selected and Save is clicked.

9. Select Save to save the new tag numbers. The Copy window is displayed with the new tag numbers listed and validated.

10. Once tag numbers have been edited as required, select Next.

    The wizard then shows all the proposed Process Equipment or Process Lines.

    

11. To copy the new objects, select Copy.

    AVEVA Instrumentation copies all the new objects and displays a log of the changes:

    

12. Select Close to exit the window.