Project: HELiOS

Define Link

Input > Links > Definition

This function enables you to create user-defined links in addition to the system links.

Open the Input tab and select can be found in the Links > Definition tab. The Define link dialogue window will be displayed. Enter a unique designation for the link. This designation will be shown in the links list of a document or article, respectively. Select a source class and a target class from the appropriate drop-down lists (as explained here).

Now select a Link type. The selection of a link type enables you to restrict the number of linked files specifically. The following types can be selected from the drop-down list: 1:1, 1:N, M:N and N:1.

"Article revision" or "Document revision", respectively, means that the link exists for the current revision only. If you made modifications to the drawing, they do not have any links. If a modification of the document or article is not relevant, select Article or Document as class, i.e. no revision-dependent link. Specify if the linked files are to be dependent on each other regarding the release.

If you select Release-relevant, specify the direction of the release-relevance with the red arrow key (i.e. must the Source class be released first in order that the Target class can also be released, or vice versa?).

Automation is only relevant for revision links:

• Break up: The already existing link remains unchanged; a new index will not be linked.
• Take over: The already existing link is taken over, and will be additionally linked to a new revision of a article or document.
• Create: If a new revision is created for the article or document, a new revision is automatically also created for the linked document or article.

In the Link write-protected master data you can specify for Source and Target, whether a link to an already released article/document may be deleted/newly created, or is to be write-protected.

The linking of two objects can, depending on the utilized link type (or link class, respectively), "indirectly" correspond to an actual change of the linked objects. Therefore, you have the option to suppress each change of the relations between objects for which the user has no change permission, in particular after their release.

The configuration of these restrictions is assigned to the individual link classes – separately for the source and for the target of a link.

These restrictions are, however, not activated in the link classes predefined in the supplied database, so that link changes can also be applied to read-only objects or released objects.

When creating user-defined link classes, the behaviour of read-only objects (and also released objects) can be defined individually on the basis of the corresponding link class: If you deactivate the Create/Delete for write-protected source or Create/Delete for write-protected target checkbox for one of these links in the dialogue, this option will no longer be available, and a subsequent establishing or removing of links between read-only objects will no longer be possible.

Please note:

Such subsequent changes of existing link classes, in particular Part-Part geometry, Part-Drawing, Part geometry-Drawing and Part(s)-Drawing can be performed by the ISD Support team.

Beneath Description, enter a short text indicating the type of the link.

If the Consider for output in lists checkbox is activated in the Display-relevance area, the link will be displayed upon certain actions in HELiOS (i.e. when linking an object to another object, e.g. via Drag & Drop) in the selection list of available links. If the checkbox is deactivated, this will not happen. The limited display does not refer to the general list of the link classes or to the window of the combined search.

After saving the new link type with OK, it will be shown in the drop-down list of the Specify link function via Designation.

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