Advanced

Naming Functionality

There are three types of object name that are involved with advanced naming functionality: default names, fixed names, and generated names.

• Default names - the system generates these automatically.

• Fixed names

• you define these in the Properties for objects and set them as fixed. See Specifying the Name of an Object in a Design or Diagram for more information about how to do this.

• Generated names

• these are based on the naming compositions set up in the advanced naming functionality in Capital Project Manager. Each name composition has a condition that determines the objects which you can use to generated names. When a name is being generated, each name composition is tested against the named object in the order the compositions are defined. The first name composition to match the object is used to generate a name.

The system uses different types of condition entries to test the named object. You can use property and attribute value conditions to match their value to a fixed string. For example, the condition "color"="Blue" matches all objects with the property set to "Blue".

It may be the case that the system will not rename some objects when you apply advanced naming to them because they do not match any conditions for the naming compositions.

You can also include design properties in naming compositions so the values that you have specified for design properties influence the generated names. See Editing the Information for a Design for more information about specifying design properties.

Note

Device connectors whose names are constrained by a footprint or library part cannot be renamed using advanced naming.

If you want to use the advanced naming conventions, you can:

• Use the Generate Advanced Names dialog box to generate them for specific selected objects. See Generating Names for Selected Objects in a Diagram in the Capital Design Tools - Common Functions User Guide.

• Use the Generate Advanced Names dialog box to generate them for all objects in a build list, design or diagram. See Generating Names for all Objects in a Build List, Design or Diagram in the Capital Design Tools - Common Functions User Guide.

Parent Topic:

Editing the Attributes and Properties of Objects

Capital Systems Integrator User Guide, 2512.2606

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