This FDF section provides a link between the Design contractor's Item code that appears in the Piping data file and the location of the corresponding entry for that component in the COMPONENT INFORMATION-FILE.

This FDF section defines:

• Design Contractors Item Code

• Alternative Item Code

• Alternative Description

The section heading COMPONENT-INFORMATION-SELECTION is followed by the following Identifiers:

ITEM-CODE-INPUT data

ITEM-CODE-OUTPUT data

DESCRIPTION data

Where data is either a start column or file position, dependant upon whether the Component Information file is a delimited file or not.

The minimum requirement in this section is the Input Item code:

COMPONENT-INFORMATION-SELECTION    (section identifier)

ITEM-CODE-INPUT 1

Alternatively, if Item Code Transposition and Material Description Substitution were being used the file would look like this:

COMPONENT-INFORMATION-SELECTION   (section identifier)

ITEM-CODE-INPUT 1

ITEM-CODE-OUTPUT 51

DESCRIPTION 76

Or for a Delimited file.

COMPONENT-INFORMATION-SELECTION  (section identifier)

ITEM-CODE-INPUT   1

ITEM-CODE-OUTPUT   7

DESCRIPTION   10