Double clicking in the Text property field will bring up an Edit Text box to allow the user to type in the data required for the PIPELINE-REFERENCE-LOCATION-DEFINITION in the DDF. This data will be written to the Data definition file (DDF) when the Enabled property is set to true.

The link can be specified either as:

RECORD-ID data1 data2

Where data1 specifies which IDF record is to be used as the key match field and data 2 is the data record in the Pipeline Attributes file

Example:

RECORD-ID  -6  -900

Here, it is the -6 record (Pipeline Reference), which is used to match the -900 in the Pipeline attributes file, which should also be the Pipeline Reference.

Or the link can be specified as:

FULL-REFERENCE  data

Where FULL-REFERENCE means the Pipeline Reference in the IDF and data is the data record in the Pipeline attributes file, which corresponds to the Pipeline Reference.

Example:

FULL-REFERENCE  -900

Elements are specified as follows:

ELEMENT1 Start Pos End Pos Attribute No.

ELEMENT2 Start Pos End Pos Attribute No.

ELEMENT3 Start Pos End Pos Attribute No.

Where Start Pos and End Pos are the positions in the Pipeline Reference of the required data that will be used to look for a match in the Pipeline attributes file.

Attribute No is the -900 series Attribute ID that has been allocated to the particular element in the Pipeline attributes file.

Any number of Elements may be used up to a maximum of 10.

Typical example:

Actual Pipeline Reference  (-6 record)

ELEMENT1  4 6 -902

ELEMENT2  8 9 -903

ELEMENT3  10 12 -904

Corresponding entry in FDF:

PIPELINE-ATTRIBUTE-FILE (Delimited type File)

DELIMITER-CHARACTER   ,

IGNORE-CHARACTER     “

-900  1       !  P & ID From

-901  2       !  P & ID To

-902  3       !  Unit No.

-903  4       !  Service / Commodity

-904  5       !  Sequence No.

-905  6       !  Paint Code

etc.