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 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.

Automatic tag numbers may be either drawing based or project based for each type of item that has automatic tagging applied to it.

By default, drawing based automatic tagging is used The Drawing List Sub-Category of the Administration program is used to define the ranges of numbers that are to be used for each drawing; an exclusive range of numbers is defined for each project drawing. If no range is specified for a drawing, automatic tag numbers on that drawing will not be assigned incremented numbers.

If project based automatic tagging is selected, tag numbers are instead automatically completed with an automatically incrementing number for the overall project (and for that type of item), instead of for the drawings the items are on. A separate count may optionally be implement for each value of a specified item property.

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.