Explorer Display Options

The AVEVA P&ID graphical user interface includes two Explorers - the Engineering Explorer and the Symbol Explorer. Each is displayed on a tab in the AVEVA P&ID Explorer pane.

The Favourites tab displays symbols added to the favourites group.

The Explorer pane may be displayed in two modes: docking and floating. The docking version may be dragged and "docked" to any edge of the drawing window or may be positioned anywhere within the drawing window. The floating version is designed to be used primarily on dual screen monitors, as it can be dragged to any position on the screen (or screens), not just within the drawing window, so that is does not obscure any part of a drawing.

Docked - Engineering Explorer displayed:

Floating - Symbol Explorer displayed:

The default starting position and mode of the Explorer pane is docked on the left-hand edge of the drawing page, although this may be changed by editing the user's start-up routine. When a user initializes a session, it is displayed in the position and mode it was in when the user’s previous session ended.