Link a Genie to an Equipment Type

You can use the Equipment Editor to link a genie to an equipment type. This can help simplify the process of creating graphics pages for your project, as you are able to deploy multiple equipment instances as genies from within the Equipment Editor's equipment hierarchy.

You may want to use the following genie to represent multiple instances of a motor on your graphics pages.

If you were to add multiple instances of the genie to a graphics page, you would have to manually configure the following properties for each copy.

If you were to link the genie to an equipment type, you could deploy the genie from within the Equipment Editor. Any genie properties that are defined within the equipment type will be pre-configured in each pasted genie.

To configure the link to a genie:

1. Open the required equipment type in Equipment Editor.
2. Select the Genies tab.



3. Click the Link Genie button to open the Genies dialog. The dialog includes a list of the genies defined in the current project and its included projects.



4. Select the genie you would like to link to the equipment type from the list included in the Select a Genie field. The list will display the full name for each available genie in the following format:

<Project name>.<Library name>.<Genie name>

5. Click OK to confirm your selection.

The selected genie will appear on the Genies tab for the equipment type to which it is now linked. The associated Genie Properties will also appear.



6. You can edit the values for the Genie Properties, except for properties named "Equip" or "Equipment" as they are reserved for the equipment name.

The values you enter will be passed through to each associated equipment instance, and will be retained by the genie when it is pasted on to a graphics page.

If a linked genie has been modified in Graphics Builder, you can use the Refresh Genie button to update the Genie Properties.

7. Save your changes to the equipment type.

Note: You can only associate one genie with an equipment type.

To change the genie that is linked to an equipment type:

1. On the Genies tab, right-click on the current genie and select Delete.
2. Link to a new genie using the steps described in the procedure above.

Or:

1. On the Genies tab, right-click on the current genie and select Edit.

Or:

Select the current genie and press the F2 key.

2. Manually enter the name of a different genie using the following format:

<Project name>.<Library name>.<Genie name>.

Note: If the specified genie does not exist in the main project or one of its included projects, the genie will display a red border. This indicates that the current genie name is invalid.

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Published June 2018