The Ribbon

The OpenPlant Project Administrator is set up with a tabbed tool ribbon located at the top of the interface, with a navigation pane listing OpenPlant Configurations, Workspaces, Worksets and Applications. OpenPlant Project Administrator supports OpenPlant Modeler, OpenPlant PID , OpenPlant Support Engineering and ProStructuresapplications.

The Tool Ribbon displays up to four tabs, depending on what is selected in the Navigation Pane. Each tab with multiple options contained within. Click on the links below to display help for the individual tool ribbons:

• Configuration
• Settings
• Tools
• Connect Services

Productivity tools and Your Profile

The top right-hand section of the ribbon contains shortcuts for frequently used productivity tools like about dialog, help documentation, and your profile.

• User Icon
• User icon displays the CONNECTED user's initials. You can select the drop-down button to view account information to view the below information:

• Name - Displays your user name
• Email Address - Displays your email address
• View Profile - View your profile

• Aha Portal
• Opens Aha idea portal site (https://openplant.ideas.aha.io/).Use this portal to submit your product improvement suggestions, vote on other ideas, and provide feedback.

• About OpenPlant Project Administrator
• Opens OpenPlant Project Administrator about dialog.

• Help
• Shortcut to view the following

• Locally installed Help Documentation
• Online Help Documentation

• Switch Language
• Sets the language.

• Preferences
• Opens the Preferences dialog which is used to save the log files.
• You can change location by using browse button.
• Turn on Enable Verbose Logging check box to save the detailed logs to the desired location instead of changing log levels in CFG.

Check-In EC3 Schema to ProjectWise

In the Preferences dialog, toggle on the Checkin Process Schemas to ProjectWise after iTwin Setup/Upgrade checkbox to checkin the schemas to ProjectWise.

EC3 schemas are created inside the schema folder in ProjectWise.

Note: Launch OpenPlant Project Administrator in "Run as administrator" mode to enable Preferences option.

Navigation Tree

The ribbon tabs as well as the options available within are dependent on the select made in the Configuration/Workspace navigation pane on the left. Only options relating to the node selected in the navigation pane are enabled.

• Click the top level Configuration node and the options in the Configuration and Workspace groups are available.
• Click on a Workspace node to enable the Workset creation options.
• Click on a Workset to enable Workset Enabling and Editing options.
• Click on an Application node to display the Settings and Tools ribbon tabs.

Property Grid

When you select a project, all the project's configuration variables are listed in property grid to the right of the Navigation Tree.

The configuration variables can be displayed either in a grouped view where variables are grouped into expandable setting tabs as shown.

The variables can also be displayed in a Flat view where they are not grouped and displayed in alphabetical order.

Click the icon to toggle the display of the project variables. The variables can be either grouped as shown in the above image, or in a flat view with no groupings.

Use the Sort icon to sort the variables in Ascending/Descending order.

Filter

To filter the list, type your search criteria into the search field. The list is filtered dynamically as you type in characters. To clear the filter, click the icon next to the filter field. This icon displays when characters are entered into the field. The variables can also be displayed in a Flat view where they are not grouped and displayed in alphabetical order.

Descriptive Prompt

The property grid displays a small description at the bottom explaining what the selected variable is meant to do and what the possible values are.

Save

Restore Defaults