How to add a new Note and have it annotated on Page Connectors?


  
 Applies To Page Connector Annotation
  
 Product(s):OpenPLANT P&ID
 Version(s):08.11.10.39 and greater
 Environment: N/A
 Area: Annotation
 Subarea: Notes
 Original Author:Bentley Technical Support Group
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to add a new Note and have it annotated on Page Connectors?

Purpose: Additional “note” for manual annotation of Page Connector

Requested by or related to: Many users as well as a general need to have more than one “note”

Brief Description: Adding a second “Note” property to an off page connector was never an issue in the past. At some point in the SELECTseries 4/5 release time this became impossible to do. We have been looking into this as time permits and finally have figured out how to make this work in SELECTseries 5.

In the soon to be released PowerPID release 08.11.10.202 where we have true shared schemas between OpenPlant Modeler and OpenPlant PowerPID and editing of the OpenPlant schema will be required in order to share the common properties and relationships between the two…..

  1. Load the OpenPlant Schema.
  2. Locate the CONNECTOR class and then the NOTES property.
  3. Copy NOTES and make the new property NOTES_2, display label Note Line 2.
  4. Load the OpenPlant_PID schema and supplement this with the OpenPlant_PID_Supplemental_Imperial
    schema.
  5. Locate the OFFPAGE_CONNECTOR class and the NOTES property.
  6. Copy its CustomAttributes.
  7. Continuing on the OFFPAGE_CONNECTOR class, locate the NOTE_2 property you added in
    step 3. Override this property.
  8. Paste the copied custom attributes on this property.
  9. Modify the location of the text in the Annotation Custom Attribute. Save
    the schema.

 You will now have a second “Note” line that will place on the Page Connector. Note that you could add
additional note properties in the same fashion.

 Not sure why there is a need to go back to the OpenPlant schema but it is suspected it may have something to do
with the Definition Meta Data custom attribute and the diProp:NOTES setting on this custom attribute. It has been attempted to add this custom attribute at the OpenPlant_PID level schema and it can be added but it cannot be edited. Even if you copy the existing NOTES property in the OpenPlant_PID schema this custom attribute will not copy over.

 In any case the Page Connector now has two lines of notes as you can see below.

See Also

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