Association Manager

The Association Manager allows the user to view all the associations that have been created using the Equipment Associations utility.

1. In the Design module, select Utilities > Associations from the main menu:

   

   There could be many associations created in a project with various filtering methods, as shown below. The following options should be self explanatory.

   

   There are three panels. The first is the list of the chosen associations.

   

   This shows the

   • Association

   • A description of the association

   • The purpose of the association (PURP attribute)

   • The Status of the association (that means, Passed or Failed)

   • The two associated item names

2. To group the entries according to a particular column, drag the column header to the indicated location.

   The second panel shows the restrictions that make up the association and the status of the restriction.

   Note: Most associations are made up of one restriction but a few are made up of a number of restrictions any of which could lead to the failure of the association.

   

   The third panel provides information about the selected restriction.

   

   The above example shows that the restriction has failed because the distance qualifier is 2000, but the actual distance between the points is 913.

   The Associations panel has several right click menu options; which are self-explanatory.

   

   The View Association Items option creates a new view just showing the association items, for example:

   

   In the figure ‘MYFA’ in the purpose attribute (PURP) of the P-points of the items that have been selected as reference (connection) points for the association. P-points (or P-lines) to be used in associations are identified by a 4-character PURP attribute which ends in ‘FA’).

   The other menu options allow navigation to the association items, (that means, make the association or an association item the current element), deletions of an association, or saving the associations table as an Excel file.

   The Association Detail panel has the following self explanatory right click option.