Deactivating and Activating Inheritance Relationships 

Use

This procedure describes how you deactivate an inheritance relationship and reactivate a deactivated inheritance relationship.

After you have deactivated an inheritance relationship, the data in the target specification is no longer updated when you change the corresponding data in the source specification. In addition, you can change the data passed on (value assignments and identifiers) in the target specification. The corresponding value assignment instances and identifiers are then ready for input and are marked with the  icon.

If you reactivate the inheritance relationship, the system updates the data in the target specification using the data in the source specification.

This means the data changed in the target specification is overwritten by the data in the source specification, and data that has been changed in the source specification is accordingly also changed in the target specification.

Prerequisites

·        You have executed the procedure Editing Specifications and are on the screen for editing the header data of the specification for which you want to deactivate or reactivate an inheritance relationship.

·        The inheritance relationship that you want to activate or deactivate, contains an inheritance template in which the Deactiv. inheritance relationships indicator is set, in other words, for which the deactivation and reactivation of the inheritance relationship is permitted.

Procedure

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       1.      Choose the Relationships tab page.

       2.      In the corresponding table, select the row of the inheritance relationship that you want to deactivate or activate.

       3.      Choose  with the quick info text Inheritance active/inactive.

Result

An active () inheritance relationship is deactivated ().

An inactive () inheritance relationship is activated ().