Configuring the Derived From Function for Services Items

You can configure how a new Services Item is derived from another Services Item.

When you create a Services Item by deriving it from another, the app copies several items from the original Services Item. For more information, see Creating Services Items. You can use these properties to add items to be copied from the existing Services Item (as selected for Derived From) to the newly created Services Item.

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Configuring Properties
  1. Create or open the text file to contain customized properties. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.
  2. To define which items attached by relationships to the original Services Item will be copied to the new Services Item, follow these steps:

    The relationships for this property are those where the item to copy is at the "to" end of the relationship.

    1. Add or edit this line in the files used to import properties into a page object: 

      FinancialServices.derivedfrom.relToCopy.to

    2. Set the value for this property to a comma-separated list of relationship symbolic names.
  3. To define which items attached by relationships to the original Services Item will be copied to the new Services Item, follow these steps:

    The relationships for this property are those where the item to copy is at the "from" end of the relationship.

    1. Add or edit this line in the files used to import properties into a page object: 

      FinancialServices.derivedfrom.relToCopy.from

    2. Set the value for this property to a comma-separated list of relationship symbolic names.
  4. To define which attributes to copy from the derived-from Services Item to the new Services Item, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the files used to import properties into a page object: 

      FinancialServices.derivedfrom.attrToCopy

    2. Set the value for this property to a comma-separated list of attribute symbolic names.
  5. To define which extensions to copy from the derived-from Services Item to the new Services Item, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the files used to import properties into a page object: 

       FinancialServices.derivedfrom.extension

      By default, the property value is set to * (meaning all extensions).

    2. Set the value for this property to a comma-separated list of extension symbolic names.
  6. When finished updating the text file with all properties you want to modify, including the ones shown here, use the text file to modify the FinancialServices.properties page object. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.