About Routing Link Templates

Once you instantiate a text or a table template, you need to resolve or route the link templates it contains (if any).

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Routing Link Templates

Instantiating text and table templates means replicating the texts or the tables to predefine the title blocks (containing the link templates) or revision blocks (containing the link templates) of a drawing for example.

Routing Text Templates

When you instantiate a text template containing link templates, the Instantiate Text command prompts you to select the object to which the link templates must be routed. However, if any of the link templates inside the text template is not routed, you need to resolve it using the contextual command Route Link Template.

Route Link Template is available in the context menu of tables and texts containing at least a link template, routed or not. Also, it is available in design sheet, detail sheet and background of layouts, as well as in diagrams and in the Symbol Editor app of Schematic apps.

Routing Table Templates

  • When you use Route Link Template on a table template, all its cells containing some link templates are highlighted:
    • In green, for cells whose link templates are routed and are associative.
    • In red, for cells whose link templates are not yet routed.
    • In orange, if any of the link templates contained in a table cell is resolved nonassociatively.

  • When resolving the table template, you can select an object compatible with the link templates of selected cells, that is, their types and attribute(s).

    • The compatible link templates are immediately routed to the selected object, and corresponding cells are unselected and highlighted in green.
    • The cells corresponding to some link templates that are not routed are kept selected, to allow further reroute.

Note: If no cell is selected and a routing is performed by selecting an element or clicking in the dialog box, all the cells that are not yet routed are taken into account.

In addition, the Route Link Template dialog box appears to provide the routing options:

  • Route to containing representation: To route or reroute link templates of selected cells to the attributes of the representation containing the current layout.
  • Route to presented product: To route or reroute link templates of selected cells to the product presented, which is defined as follows:

In the case of a layout, it is the product under which the representation of the layout is located. The favorite context is not taken into account, as it is only a context.

In the case of a diagram, it is the system under which the current layout is located.