Item tagging

A virtual plant typically consists of hundreds or thousands of plant item-type nodes.

Use node name and group (when defined) to identify the various items. Sometimes, however, you may want to create groups of items to organize them.

Creating item categories with tags

You can logically or spatially group objects in a plant in many ways, including by:

• P&ID

• Equipment

• Area

• Item type

These sets may partially overlap or an item might belong to multiple categories. Tagging offers the ability to mark each item with a set of keywords.

All the tags are available for Item Explorer advanced search. This enables the display of only those items that belong to the searched tag group.

Scenario example

For example, a single FOD valve named K144_001 can be a globe valve, be part of the LP COMPRESSOR KO DRUM equipment located in the area 44, and have the reference P&ID 1028-05-197.

Other possible uses for tags

You can also use tags inside scripts, in addition to using them for searching.

Here are possible uses in scripts.

Create an Info Panel

• Create a user action called info for some items.

• Link this user action to the display of a message box panel whose content depends on the item tags.

Decorate Action Logger

• Use the selected tags of the current item to define the text to report in the Action Logger.

Perform command actions on tag basis

• In a command, you can iterate among all the plant items using the enumerateNodes:item syntax that returns an MSTRING.

• The code can then perform different statements according to the content of selected item tags.