Editing Technological Types

This topic provides you with information concerning the way you can manage and edit technological types.

See Also
About Technological Types
Creating a Technological Type
Managing Attributes

In the Know-how Apps Components app, the Attributes tab comprises several functions that are described hereinafter.

In case a technological type comprises a sub-type, this particular sub-type inherits from all the attributes of its parent technological type. The situation is the same if a sub-type comprises other sub-types and so on.

The Attributes tab includes several areas:

  • The Local attributes area includes the attributes of the currently selected technological type.
  • The Inherited attributes area includes all the attributes that are automatically inherited from all its parent technological types.
  • The Attribute value area allows valuating local attributes or inherited attributes.

It is possible to overload an inherited attribute by modifying its value. In doing so, the inherited attribute is modified at its level but it does no affect the parent type's value. In the Inherited attributes area, the Overloaded column indicates NO when an inherited attribute is not modified and there is a YES when the value of the inherited Technological Type has been modified.

Note: In the Attribute value area, the Delete command allows deleting the selected local attribute. Still in the same area, there is another command called Reset that allows resetting the value of an inherited attribute that has been overloaded. Note also that it is not possible to delete an inherited attribute.