The PDMx Project Repository Manager is used to manage projects. The projects consist of the PDMx xml files as well as the configuration settings. The Repository Manager allows users to create New projects, Clone existing projects, Rename, Edit, Delete and explore the Project Folder.

In the following example there are two projects in the Project Repository Manager:

The Project Repository has the following folder structure with two sample projects:

The Project folder structure is shown below. Each project contains a configuration file - Project.xml file the contains the settings along with the ExportFiles folder that contains the pdmx.xml files exported from AVEVA PDMS or E3D. Additional schema files, session folders and logs can be generated in the project folder during conversion.

The picture below shows the creation of a new project with the with default project settings. In this case the PDMx xml files will come from the ExportFiles folder. The list of files from this folder will be used as filters by the Plant Exporter or i-model Composition Service for Plant Client.

You can use custom scripts to get filters directly from AVEVA PDMS or E3D. To use this option, click on Connect to PDMS and then select the Start script, PDMS path to batch file used to start PDMS, the Project name, the MDB name, as well as User name and Password. In this case PDMx xml files from ExportFiles folder will be ignored.