P&ID Data Grid

The P&ID Data Grid is used to display details of project equipment, pipes, instruments nozzles, valves, line fittings and unassigned sheet connectors in tabular form.

It can also be used to:

• Assign unassigned items (created in P&ID Reports) to drawings

• Assign source/destination drawing sheets to off-page connectors

• Transfer instruments from AVEVA Instrumentation and add them to drawings.

• Transfer electrical equipment from AVEVA Electrical and add them to drawings.

• Transfer data to and from PDMS Schematics and add it to drawings.

• Label drawings with any of the data displayed in the tables.

• View lists of errors and warnings arising from synchronisation, and add them to drawings.

  Note: The P&ID Data Grid only displays details of drawing data that has been Synchronised. Refer to Export Data to a P&ID Reports Database.

To open the P&ID Data Grid, select the Load P&ID Grid option in the P&ID Reports group of the Manage tab. The P&ID Data Grid opens by default below the drawing window.

To close the P&ID Data Grid, click x in the top-left corner.

The P&ID Data Grid consists of two main windows. The left-hand window of the P&ID Data Grid includes hierarchical tree-view of project items, similar to that of the Engineering Explorer.

It includes Unassigned and Assigned nodes under the AVEVA P&ID Database node. The Assigned node lists items in the database that are on a project drawing. The Unassigned node lists items, created in P&ID Reports, which have not been added to a project drawing, and sheet connectors on project drawings which have no source or destination drawing sheet defined for them.

The tree-view also lists of assigned and unassigned instruments from AVEVA Instrumentation and of assigned and unassigned electrical equipment from AVEVA Electrical, and lists of items in the connected PDMS Schematic database.

The tree view is used to select an item or category of item, the details of which are in displayed in a grid in the right-hand window.

This is used to select an item or category of item, the details of which are in displayed in a grid in the right-hand window.

The layout of the data as displayed in the right-hand section may be configured. Columns may be added, removed, re-ordered, filtered and pinned, and data may be grouped in selected columns.

Column alias tooltips are available for column headings if they are defined in AVEVA P&ID Reports. Refer to Column Alias Tooltips.

Above the windows, a number of buttons are displayed. These are used to:

• Configure the display of data in the right-hand window.

• Zoom into a selected item on the drawing.

• Refresh labels on the drawing inserted from the P&ID Data Grid.

• Import modified grid data from an Excel Spreadsheet.

• Export the data displayed in the right-hand window to an Excel spreadsheet.

• Commit the modified P&ID Data Grid to the database.