Instruments Tab

In the Sizing Calculation Properties section, click Process Item Properties if the values of associated process lines can be used when performing instrument sizing calculations. If the values must be entered manually, leave the Instrument Process Properties option selected.

The Grid Captions section can be used to specify alternative field captions for instrument fields in the New Tag and Edit Tag windows (for creating and editing instruments), and in the Instruments List:

• By default, the Grid Captions grid is inactive and the captions cannot be amended here. They may still be edited for the instruments list grid using the Grid Manager, but they will not be displayed in the New Tag and Edit Tag windows.

• To activate the feature, check the Use Gridview Captions for Instrument Edit dialog checkbox. The grid will become editable, and you can now amend any of the Caption column fields.

• Be aware that User-defined captions that are longer than the default captions used in the instrument windows may not fit neatly into the space available for them on those windows.

• You can revert back to the default field name settings by un-checking the Use Gridview Captions for Instrument Edit dialog checkbox. This will not delete the edits to the captions, and they will still be displayed in the instruments list grid, but they will no longer appear in the New Tag and Edit Tag windows.

By default, every instrument tag in the Project must be unique. However, if required, duplicate tags may be permitted as long as they unique within their Project location. Check the Allow duplicate instrument tags in different locations checkbox if this is required.

Note: Duplicate tags can only be created in Instrumentation Engineer. In other words, field devices created in Equipment List in Instrument Wiring Manager, even though they are also in the Instrument List, cannot have duplicate tags.

Some items (for example, field devices) are present in both the Instrumentation Engineer and Instrument Wiring Manager modules. To keep the data in their User fields synchronized (in other words, so that changing the User field data for a field device in one module will automatically change it in the other), check the Sync. User Field Data between Engineer and Wiring Manager checkbox.

The checkbox is unchecked by default.