Once your engineering standards have been designed and validated for a project and saved in a DeltaV Library category, you can use the Protect command to prevent users from modifying items in that category. The following items can be protected:
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Device template categories
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Function block template categories
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Composite template categories
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Module template categories
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SIS composite template categories
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SIS composite templates
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SIS module template categories
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Categories of advanced definition classes
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Parameters of class-based templates.
With one exception, you do not protect individual templates and classes. You protect the categories which protects the templates and classes within them. You protect each class-template parameter individually.
The one type you can protect individual templates of is SIS composite templates. However, the method, intent, and the effects of template protection are very different than that of category protection. For that reason protecting SIS composite templates is explained within the SIS security documentation.
Categories are protected through the use of a password. To protect and unprotect non-SIS categories users must either have DeltaV Administrator accounts or have the Can Configure key. To protect and unprotect SIS categories users (including DeltaV Administrators) must have the SIS Can Configure key. Users with DeltaV Administrator accounts are not prompted for a password when unprotecting categories. When a category is unprotected, all the items in that category become unprotected for all users.
Passwords are not required to protect and unprotect parameters in class-based templates. The category containing the template must be unprotected for user to be able to protect parameters. Unprotecting categories of class-based templates does not affect the protection of individual parameters in the templates.
The locks and keys that define parameter and field security properties are not affected when an item is unprotected.