Distributed Attributes

LEXICON User Guide

New functionality features called Bound elements and Binding elements have been introduced to the database system. The basic principle of bound and binding attributes is to enable elements to have groups of attributes distributed across other hierarchies and different databases. These attributes are called Distributed Attributes.

For example, a engineering equipment Tag can be created by the process discipline with a set of process condition attributes directly onto the tag. Other sets of attributes (for example the mechanical and electrical attributes) can then be distributed across the mechanical and electrical databases.

As a result, team members of the three teams irrespective of their location will have write access to the attributes under their control and read only access to those not under there control concurrently.

Engineering tags are created in the Tags module, for more information on Tags, refer to the Tags User Guide. Data modelling is managed in the LEXICON module, for more information on distributed attributes, refer to Define Distributed Attributes. The disciplines and locations are identified and the databases and distributed hierarchy are created in the Admin module, refer to AVEVA E3D™ Project Structure for further information.