Label Typical Items

The AVEVA P&ID Typical Items feature enables one item to be identified as having data that is typical of many items. The details of the items represented by the typical item are added to the label of the item on the P&ID, but do not appear on the P&ID.

The following items can be made typical of many:

• Pipes

• Offsheet Connectors

• Instruments

• Equipment

• SPP Items

• Valve Items

• Nozzles.

Refer to Typical Items.

Associated Project Configuration Options

• The Typical Item feature can be turned on or off by the Typical Labelling checkbox in the Miscellaneous - Labels Sub-Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program.

• The colours of typical items and labels are also specified on this tab.

• The fields available when labelling typical pipes is set in the Pipes - Labels Sub-Category.

Procedure

1. Label the item that is to be made typical in the normal way.

2. For each item that can be made into a Typical Item, the shortcut menu includes a Typicals option. This option is available if the Typical Item facility is enabled at project level, and if the item has been labelled with the minimum mandatory data for the item type. The option accesses a dialog for the entry, deletion and modification of the typical data.

   For example:

   

   Existing typical labels are displayed in order number sequence.

3. To create a typical label, click where it says Click here to add new typical.... The new label is placed at the bottom of the list of existing typical labels, if there are any.

4. Enter the required details in the fields provided.

   Note: The Loop Number column is available for typical instruments. The functionality can be used to assign a loop number to a typical instrument other than the parent instrument loop number. By default, the field value is set to UNNAMED if the column is not populated.

5. Validated fields are automatically completed with the value entered in the previous row. Amend as required.

6. The Order field is completed automatically with the position of the label in the list of typical labels. Order numbers are assigned in ascending order.

   To change the position of a typical label in the order, select it, and move it up or down the order using the Up and Dn buttons.

7. To delete a label, select it and press the Delete key.

8. Press OK to accept the typical data. Alternatively, press Cancel to close the dialog, losing all the currently entered data.

Points to Note

• For instruments, SPP Items, Valves and Offsheet Connectors the number of typical data records must match the number of typical pipes. An inconsistency in the number of typical data records is considered an error, and no typical data is output for the pipe in question.

• Typical data must be unique on a drawing.

• The uniqueness of Typical SPP Items is checked, provided that the Labels to be Unique checkbox in the Miscellaneous - Labels Sub-Category of the AVEVA P&ID Project Administration program is checked.

• Branches of Typical pipes will automatically become Typical, with the same Typical data set as their owner pipe.

• If a Typical pipe is connected to the nozzle of an Equipment item then both the Nozzle and the Equipment must also be Typical.

• If a Typical pipe has an Offsheet Connection flag on either or both ends, the connection label must also be Typical.

• If a Typical pipe has Valves, inline or process connected Instruments then these must also be Typical.

• Inconsistencies in the number of Typical data records for the pipe and the number of associated Typical items and any associated drawings are considered as errors, and no Typical data is output for that pipe.

• If a pipe label of a Typical pipe is set as the "main pipe label", refer to Set a Pipe Label as the Main Label, all of the items that it represents also have that label set to be the main label.