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Library items and impact

What a change to a library item of a DeltaV export reaches: module classes, composites, function block types, named sets, and phase, unit and process cell classes.

Verification state: modelled. On the real DeltaV 14.5.1 export: 317 library items and 1,292 uses found in about 0.6 s; the impact of every item computed in 3 ms in all; the widest item reaches 425 objects up to 3 steps away. Not seen in the running Editor; not on Windows.

Show the impact of a change

  1. Run Show Impact of a Library Item, or Show Impact of a Change on a module class or phase class in the DeltaV Plant view.
  2. Pick the item. Items are sorted by reach: module classes, composites, function block types, named sets, phase classes, unit classes and process cell classes.
  3. A DeltaV Impact tab shows what uses the item directly, then what uses those, grouped by distance, each with the item it goes through and every place it is named.

Click a name to open the text there. The tab follows the text.

A use is a DEFINITION=, MODULE_CLASS=, CLASS=, SET= or COMMAND_SET= naming the item, anywhere inside a statement. Each user is listed once, at the distance first reached.

Limits

  • Only the open export is read: users in other exports of the same database are not counted.
  • Names used inside expressions are not counted.
  • The view says what a change reaches, not what it does to each user.

Last reviewed 18 October 2026View as Markdown

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