Patent ID: 7337095

Claim:
A method for at least one of planning and configuring a project, which represents an automation device for controlling a technical installation, wherein project data required for at least one of planning and configuring the automation device is stored in an engineering system, the method comprising: dividing the project into a plurality of partial projects; at least one of planning and configuring the partial projects on a plurality of programming units that are interconnected, wherein project data of one of the partial projects is stored in at least one of the programming units on which the partial project was at least one of planned and configured; centrally storing data records, which indicate which of the partial projects are operatively linked to which of the programming units; and determining whether the project data of an associated programming unit can be accessed, wherein: these data records are read by the programming units; and the project data of the partial projects of the operatively linked programming units is directly transferred between the programming units, wherein the partial projects are not centrally stored but are only stored in the programming units.