Child templates

In some cases, you might want to create a template that has one or more child templates. For example, suppose you have a template representing a motor and you want a separate template for the shaft. You want the shaft template to be a child of the motor template. You cannot directly create a child template in the same way that you would create a child element. Instead, you create a new referenced template below the Motor template.

This also creates a new reference type in the Reference Types collection.

Now, suppose you create an element based on the Motor template. PI System Explorer does not automatically create the child element, Shaft. However, when you manually create a child element on the motor element, the Motor-Shaft reference type is added to the list of reference types and the Shaft template appears in the Element Template list.