Performance Improvements for Large Projects

The performance of AVEVA P&ID can be improved for use with large projects, for example, a project containing over 500 drawings. The master project can be divided into sub-projects, by creating design areas, and user access can be provided to each of the design areas.

1. Launch AVEVA P&ID using the required project.

2. Open the Project Administrator.

3. Navigate to the List of Values category and create design area codes to be allocated to the project. The design area codes must only contain characters that are valid to use as part of a filename convention.

   

4. Navigate to the Drawings - Settings sub-category and create an association between the design area attribute and the area code list of values.

   

5. Open the Security application using the required project.

6. To control user access to each of the design areas,navigate to the Settings category and check the Enable Access by Area checkbox.

   The example displays the available design areas for the project.

   

7. To set access control to individual user groups, navigate to the Groups category and create user groups with user defined permissions.

   

8. To enable user access to each design area, navigate to each of the Area sub-categories and define the user permissions.

   The example displays area "001" with enabled access for user groups "System Admin" and "001" only.

   

9. Navigate to the Users category and make sure that at least one user is assigned to each user group in the project.

   

10. Allocate each of the drawings to the corresponding design area using either of the following processes.

    1. Open AVEVA P&ID and specify the Design Area Attribute value during drawing creation according to project rules.

       

    2. Open AVEVA P&ID and specify the Design Area Attribute value using the Properties dialog.

       

    3. Open the Document Manager application and navigate to the Audit Trail dialog. Specify the Design Area Attribute value for each drawing in the grid.

       Note: Make sure all target drawings are unlocked and no drawings are currently open by other users at the drawing editor.

       Note: Columns can be displayed on the Audit Trail dialog using filters to identify the drawings based on the design area. Right-click and select Fill column to copy the design area attribute value to all selected rows.

       

       Click Save to commit the changes to the database.

11. Open the Reports application and select the Preferences option in the Options group of the Home tab to display the Options dialog.

12. On the Table Columns tab, navigate to the equipment table, select and delete all user defined attribute columns associated with the fragmented dataset attributes created by the project schema.

    

    To prevent the consolidation routine to recreate the same columns again, set the user defined variable described in Remove Duplicated Attributes generated by Data Modelling using the Project Administrator.

13. Open the Project Administrator.

14. Navigate to the P&ID Reports category and click Create DB By Area to create new report databases divided into design areas.

    

    Note: This process can take several minutes depending on the number of design areas in the project.

    When the process is complete, a message window is displayed indicating that new report database files have been created.

    

15. Open AVEVA P&ID as a user with access to a specific design area, for example, design area 097.

    

    Access is available to synchronize data by selecting drawings that belong to the associated design area.

    The examples display the drawings that can be accessed based on the user access rights defined in the Security application.

    

    

    In this context, based on user access control rights, the user can synchronize data from working drawings into the target reports database associated with design area (097).

    The P&ID Data Grid can be used to view data stored in the reports database associated with a specific drawing area.

    

    Click to synchronize drawings that belong to selected design area (097) to the target database.

    Click to open the target database associated with the design area.