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Synthesis Resources

Maintenance Groups

Maintenance groups are resources that are available for use throughout the project and can be managed via the Resource Manager. A maintenance group is a set of blocks where some event within the group can trigger either maintenance or state changes for one or more blocks, either within the group or outside of it. You can use a maintenance group:

What's Changed? In previous versions, item group numbers offered a limited version of this functionality, where assigning blocks to the same maintenance group caused their maintenance to be performed together. The maintenance groups used in the Synthesis version allow a great deal more modeling flexibility.

The Maintenance Group window allows you to create, view and edit maintenance groups. It can be accessed by clicking the Create New or View/Edit icon in the Maintenance Group wizard, accessed from the Block Properties window).

  

It can also be accessed from the Maintenance Groups page of the Resource Manager by choosing Home > Edit > New, by selecting a maintenance group and choosing Home > Edit > View or by double-clicking a maintenance group.

At the top of the window, you can specify the maintenance group name. You can replace the default name with your own name of up to 150 characters, if desired. Users with the "Manage other repository settings" permission can change the default names by choosing File > Manage Repository > Define Default Names.

You can also enter comments about the maintenance group in this window.

For an existing resource, a link at the bottom of the properties window indicates how many times it is currently being used. If you need more information, click the link or the Trace Usage icon.

This opens the Dependency Viewer, which allows you to explore both where the resource is being used and what other resources are associated with it.

The Maintenance Group Manager allows you to add blocks to or remove blocks from a maintenance group without having to go into each block's properties individually. This window can be accessed by choosing Project > Data Management > Maintenance Group Manager or, when you are viewing the Maintenance Groups page of the Resource Manager, by choosing Home > Actions > Maintenance Group Manager.

The Maintenance Group area allows you to choose an existing maintenance group from the drop-down list. In addition, you can click the Select Existing icon to open the Select Resource window. If there is not an existing maintenance group that meets your needs, you can create a new one by clicking the Create New icon to open a window that allows you to specify a name for the new maintenance group, as well as any comments. Click the View icon to view the characteristics of the selected maintenance group.

You can also click the Indicator Style icon to modify the appearance of the corner indicator that will appear on each block that belongs to the maintenance group, including:

The Blocks area displays all of the blocks in the maintenance group, in the format [Diagram Name]\[Block Name].

 

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