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The purpose of the B.10.03 Node Types and Settings screen is to define node types that are used later in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) on the B.20.01 Edit BOM and the B.20.03 Adv. Maintain BOM screens. In addition, you can assign node attributes to the node types.

With node types and their attributes, you can establish the hierarchy of a project structure with units, areas, line numbers, and isometrics, for example.

To define new node types in the first (Node Types) block, enter the node type name in the Name field and the descriptions in the Short Desc and Description fields on the BOM Node Settings tab. The description of a node in the WBS with a certain node type assigned can be derived from a rule. Use the LOV in the Description Rule field to define the description rule for the selected node type. The procedure creates the node description based on this description rule if you create a new BOM node.

The description rule can be set up with these objects:

  • individual node name ($CODE) and path ($NAME)

  • node type ($TYPE)

  • unit for the attribute ($ATTR_UNIT)

  • any attribute defined in A.50.01

  • fixed text

The attributes are enclosed by the special character #. Fixed text values should be entered without using the # character. The user must be sure to use only attributes that are assigned to the node type, or are available at the structural level in the BOM.

The picture below shows an example of how to use attributes with the description rule. The attributes ā€˜DES_AREAā€™ and ā€˜P_IDā€™ have been assigned to a node type and added to the description rule of that node type.

When you create a line number and enter values for the assigned node attributes, the generated name of the node includes these values. See the picture below for an example.

Node types or attributes of a node type can only be deleted if the node type has not yet been allocated to any node within the WBS.