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Exporting the list of External References to Spreadsheet

I am trying to export the references for an entire process cell or (individual modules is fine as well) so I don't have to be online during a P&ID review.  I have been unable to find where this data exists when doing a custom export.  Does anyone have any information on how to do this? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

• export external references

Jason.Brumfield

• 18 Apr 2016 5:17 PM
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• Youssef.El-Bahtimy

  

  • 18 Apr 2016 7:57 PM

  I don't think you are going to be able to do this using built in features of the system. In 2009, I accomplished this by converting the system fhx to xml, then creating a stylesheet that basically said
  'for each module, module instance, and unit module, find any expression, value, or ref that contains that module or unit'. Once found, based on what the parent/ancestor of the referencing value is, I could determine the referencing module, phase, dst, whatever. It wasn't easy, but I did get a great spreadsheet that provided a referenced module/parameter and where it was referenced. I used xml and xsl because the schema is defined and supports recursion, but plenty of people have developed parsers directly against the fhx to achieve these types of initiatives.

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• Andre Dicaire

  

  • 18 Apr 2016 8:19 PM

  In reply to Youssef.El-Bahtimy:

  Unfortunately, the "references" information available in DeltaV Explorer under a Module is not exposed for export or query. Youssef's answer is the only path to get this information.

  Andre Dicaire

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• Jason.Brumfield

  

  • 18 Apr 2016 8:23 PM

  Ok, well that helps point me in the right direction. I will parse the FHX, thank you!

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