Retrieve an element with a specific serial number

Before you can retrieve an element, you need to Edit the reactor elements to specify new attribute values.

You can use PI Builder to retrieve elements with specific attribute values into your worksheet. Follow this procedure to retrieve a reactor element with a specific serial number.

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

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

3. If the field next to the Search button is not blank, then click to clear the text.

4. Under Criteria, set the fields to find the desired element:

   1. From the Template list, select Reactor Template.

   2. From the All Descendants list, select True.

   3. Click Add Criteria and then click Attribute Value to add a set of fields that you can use to search by attribute value.

5. In the Attribute Value field set, configure the query to find elements that have a specific value for the serial-number attribute:

   1. Click Display attribute choices and then click Other Attributes > Manufacturer | Serial Number.

   2. Leave the operator field set to equal (=).

   3. In the value field (marked <Null>), type A123462.

      

6. Click Search.

   PI Builder returns the React6 element in the Results table.

7. Select the element and click OK.

8. 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 Template 'Reactor Template') group, select the Manufacturer | Serial Number check box.Click OK to retrieve the element into the worksheet.

9. Click OK to retrieve the element into the worksheet

   The Retrieve Selected Objects window shows the operations completed.

10. Click Close.

    The React6 element appears in the worksheet. In the Manufacturer | Serial Number column, the value should be A123462.