Update MES entities with SRO changes

You can use the Entity Model Builder to update your MES entities with any of the following changes made to the SROs in the System Platform IDE:

• Changing the configuration of an SRO.

• Adding an SRO at a higher level in the equipment model.

• Moving an SRO to a higher level in the equipment model (re-parenting).

• Renaming a parent to an SRO at a higher level in the equipment model. This creates a new entity in the MES database and re-parents the old entity's children, if there are any.

• Adding an SRO to the equipment model that has the same name as an entity manually configured using MES Web Portal or MES Client. The existing entity's children (if any) are re-parented.

• Moving an SRO to another parent application object. The old parent is no longer considered an entity from the perspective of Entity Model Builder. However, if the entity has already been created in the MES database, it will remain in the database. This creates a new entity and parent entities, if needed.

If you remove an entity in your IDE equipment model, the entity is not deleted in MES.

If you have not made any changes to the System Platform equipment model, the Entity Model Builder just checks that the SRO configuration in the System Platform equipment model also exists in the entity model. If there are any differences (for example, if someone changed an entity's configuration using MES Client), the MES configuration is updated to match the System Platform configuration.