Select Parent Equipment

Users may select the Parent Equipment of an item of Equipment from a list of other Equipment in the database.

This can be useful for example when users wish to group field devices together, such as making a Limit/position switch have as its parent its Control Valve tag. In this example, the Limit Switch would appear as a child node in the Equipment Treeview and any cable connected to the Control Valve could be terminated on the Limit Switch in the Terminations window since child field devices are shown in the parent equipment's Terminations window.

To select the Parent of equipment, in the Equipment List click the Parent cell button that appears when the mouse is hovered over that cell. The Select Parent Equipment window is then displayed:

To select an equipment tag, double-click on the required tag or click on it and then click Select. The window is then closed and the number of the specified equipment is displayed in the Parent cell.

To exit the window without selecting parent equipment, or to de-select parent equipment previously selected so that the equipment no longer has parent equipment, click Not Connected.