Retrieve the reactor elements

Before you can retrieve reactor elements, you need to Create the reactor elements.

To edit PI AF elements with PI Builder, retrieve those elements into your worksheet. Follow this procedure to retrieve the reactor elements into a worksheet.

1. Open a new Microsoft Excel worksheet and click the PI Builder tab.

2. In the Attribute Data References group, clear the Show Values in Columns check box.

   Because you have not yet defined any PI point data references for the temperature attribute, you do not want PI Builder to retrieve values for those data references.

3. Click Elements > Find Elements to open the Element Search window.

4. Find all the elements that use the template named Reactor Template:

   1. From the Template list, select Reactor Template.

   2. From the All Descendants list, select True.

   3. Click Search.

   PI Builder retrieves the elements that use the template named Reactor Template in the Results table.

5. Select all the elements in the Results table and click OK.

   1. Click Clear All to clear any previously selected columns.

   2. In the Attribute Columns (from Reactor Template) group, select the Temperature Attribute check box.

6. In the Select Object Types and Column Headers window, select the objects and column headers that you want to appear in the worksheet.

   1. Click Clear All to clear any previously selected columns.

   2. In the Attribute Columns (from Reactor Template) group, select the Temperature Attribute check box.

7. Click OK to retrieve the elements into the worksheet.

   The Retrieve Selected Objects window shows the operations completed.

8. Click Close.

   The worksheet should contain 10 rows, which show React1 through React10.