Exchanging Data with Other Apps

No matter how many features we can pack into our software, it is impossible to expect that a user will accomplish everything their daily job requires using only one tool. It is rather common to expect to have an arsenal of software tools, each specializing in its own domain and one can only hope that they can work cooperatively and smoothly with each other, allowing a user to accomplish his/her goals. In that spirit, SuperPro Designer allows you to export a variety of information related to your simulation project (such as pictures, numbers alone or in tables or even entire reports) to several applications running under the MS-Windows^® operating system (such as word processors, spreadsheets, or more advanced graphic editors). More specifically, you can:

●      Export process flowsheet drawing (see Exporting Process Flowsheet Drawing) and charts (see Exporting a Chart Drawing).

●      Export all the reports in a variety of formats (MS-Word, HTML, etc.), see Reports.

●      Export all the scheduling and resource consumption data (for a batch recipe) to MS-Project^® (see Exporting Scheduling & Resource Consumption Data to MS-Project) and SchedulePro (see Exporting Scheduling & Resource Consumption Data to SchedulePro), MS-Excel^® (see Export Process Scheduling Data to MS-Excel and Export Resource Consumption Data to MS-Excel).

Export selected process information displayed on a grid (e.g. a given equipment’s contents, the stream summary table, a selected procedure’s activity overview table, etc.), to a MS-Excel^® spreadsheet. The exported grid can also be hot-linked with SuperPro Designer so that it is automatically updated if the contents change (see Exporting / Linking Tables (Grids) to MS-Excel).

Create MS-Excel^® charts for operations with dynamic evolution of variables, displayed on the flowsheet. The charts are updated if the dynamic profiles of the recorded variables change (see Creating Hot-Linked MS-Excel Charts).

Use the application as a COM server (from another COM friendly computing environments such as MS-Excel^® scripting, C++ or C# applications, etc.) to load a process file, access most of the information in the file, change values and redo the M&E balances, economic calculation, generate and export charts, etc. (see Using SuperPro Designers OLE Server).

Besides exporting its own information, the application allows you to insert in the flowsheet foreign objects (e.g. spreadsheets, bitmaps, etc.) as OLE objects pasted (or linked) into the process flowsheet (see Importing OLE Objects).