Export Data for an AVEVA P&ID Reports Database

Data is validated and exported for AVEVA P&ID Reports using the Export Data to a P&ID Reports Database procedure.

Data can be exported in three ways using this procedure:

• In unconsolidated form to an intermediate database, from where it must subsequently be consolidated using AVEVA P&ID Reports facilities.

• In unconsolidated form to a number of output files, from where it must subsequently be consolidated using AVEVA P&ID Reports facilities (legacy version only).

• Consolidated drawing data transferred directly into the AVEVA P&ID Reports database.

Refer to the AVEVA P&ID Reports documentation for more information on AVEVA P&ID Reports facilities.

P&ID Reports databases are logged into using the user role and password specified when the AVEVA P&ID project was opened, refer to Start and Exit AVEVA P&ID.

AVEVA P&ID Reports can be launched from AVEVA P&ID, and the database to which drawing data has been exported opened automatically. Refer to Open a P&ID Reports Database.

Note: The database must be logged into first.

Project configuration settings for the interface with P&ID Reports, such as the database to which drawing data is exported, are specified in the P&ID Reports Configuration Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program.

See also Synchronisation using the Windows Scheduler.

Data Validation

Data validation automatically takes place when a drawing is exported. It checks the following:

• that all nozzles are identified

• that all reducers are identified

• instrument process connections

• that all spec breaks are identified

• assembles all item data for inclusion in the output files.

Only objects within the limits of drawings, as specified in the Drawing - Grid Sub-Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program, will be validated.

Points to Note

Generate Line Lists

If it is required to generate a simple line list from AVEVA P&ID using the export facility, line lists can be generated from "semi-intelligent" drawings, only partially upgraded from AutoCAD drawings, refer to Upgrade AutoCAD Drawings, in which only the lines themselves are "intelligent" and any inline symbols are "dumb" AutoCAD blocks.

Design Area

If the Design area from title block used for Instrument Label Field 1 checkbox in the Drawing - Labels Sub-Category is checked, and a design area is entered in the drawing Properties dialog, any instruments or equipment without a label prefix will have the design area exported as the prefix part of their label. For a vessel this may result in the label 20-V100, where 20 is the design area. Pre-existing instrument or equipment prefixes will not be overwritten. The area prefix is not visibly added to the label on the drawing; it is only added on export.

Specification

If the Populate Spec in Database checkbox in the Pipes - Settings Sub-Category is checked, specification attributes of items are exported. If this checkbox is not checked, the values will be set to null in the engineering database.