How are parent and child association of equipment supported?
Any Item or Item Type can be associated with a parent child relationship. It is indicated which item is the parent of the item being edited. The item is then being marked as Recall Parent and Recall Children. When the recall report is run the system will automatically mark if the item is a Parent or Child that is being recalled.
Several different types of parent-child relationships are supported by OpenMETRIC. TAGGED COMPONENTS: If both the parent and the child are tagged (that is, they each have an item identification tag and each are identified in the Item Master table), then OpenMETRIC supports the relationship as follows. On the Item Master table, there is a radio button to indicate whether or not the item is a system. A parent would indicate yes to this choice. Items which are children would indicate no to this choice. For each child, the parent is specified in the Component of field. Parents can be readily displayed using the field finder (yellow binoculars) to the right of the Component of field. This will display a paged list box (PLB) of Items that are Systems. The components of a system (children of a parent) can be readily displayed by hitting the button upon which the Component of label resides. This will display a paged list box (PLB) of Items which are Components of xxxxxx. UNTAGGED ACCESSORIES:
