Automatic Tags

The tags of valves and the number components of pipe, instrument and equipment tags may be set to be completed automatically.

Note: If this facility is in used, valve tags and the number fields of pipe, instrument and equipment tags should not be set to, refer to Set Labels to Inherit Values from Drawing Sheet Attributes.

This facility is turned on when the format for automatic valve tags is defined using the Pipes - Automatic Tag Format Sub-Category, Instruments - Automatic Tag Format Sub-Category, Equipment - Automatic Tag Format Sub-Category, Valves - Automatic Tag Format Sub-Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program.

If automatic tagging is in use for pipe, instrument and equipment tags, the number component of such items is automatically completed with an automatically incrementing number in a format defined using the above panes.

Automatic valve tags may also include an automatically incremented number.

The automatically incremented number for a type of item may be reset to 0 for a project using a button on the relevant AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program pane.

Automatic valve tags may include user-defined attributes of valves, as selected when the tag format is defined. The available properties for the format are defined in a DataSet which must be set up for this purpose.

Automatic valve tags may also include selected attributes from owner pipes.

If the facility is in use, the relevant fields on the Properties Dialogs are automatically completed when items are labelled. These values may be replaced by manual entry if required.

Existing items that were not automatically labelled may be re-labelled with tags in the automatic tag format. Refer to Replace Tags with Tags in the Automatic Tag Format.

Note: Items that were automatically labelled and then manually changed are not re-labelled by this procedure.