Plant2Business
- Last UpdatedFeb 24, 2025
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Plant2Business enables an external database or file to provide data into AVEVA™ Production Management. It is automatically installed with the AVEVA Production Management installation.
Plant2Business integration library
The Plant2Business integration library consists of Studio components that enable you to configure the data arrival and insertion into the AVEVA Production Management data streams.
Service account
AVEVA Production Management provides the Windows credentials to the Workflow service that were entered on the Service Account screen of the AVEVA Production Management installer.
Both service and Workflow service use these same credentials.
Specifically for Plant2Business functions to communicate with AVEVA Production Management, the value of the Identity property on the user, must be the same as the Windows identity.
Request Origin
SubmitData operations triggered by a Plant2Business integration will contain a requestOrigin. The requestOrigin will be the full name of the P2B integration item that triggered the record submission.
The requestOrigin is an optional string value that determines the origin of the webservice request. This value can be checked as a property on the recordChangedEventArgs in code items to ensure the event wasn't triggered by the same origin to prevent infinite loops.
Data compatibility
It's important that the data that you import into AVEVA Production Management is processed as originally intended. To preserve the original syntax and spacing of external data, AVEVA Production Management wraps imported data in quotation marks.
For example:
red and black with quotation marks, becomes "red and black"
Where this could become problematic, is when the data you import already contains quotation marks.
red "and" black with quotation marks, becomes "red "and" black"
This would be processed as "red " and " black"
Check that data you import into AVEVA Production Management through the Plant2Business connector does not contain existing quotation characters or other unsupported characters that interfere with correct processing.