Relations tab

This tab allows you to define relations between the root component of this template and other components in the station in which the template is deployed.
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The tab contains two panes. The left pane provides a list of all Relations Id's found in the installed tag dictionaries. The right pane displays a table listing any relations that have been added to the template. Use the buttons above the panes to Image, Image, and Image relations.

You can add any relations which are defined in the tag dictionaries installed on your system by selecting from the left pane and clicking Image. Optionally, you can add Ad Hoc relations by clicking Image without first making a selection, and defining the RelationId in the Add window. By default, the Relation Direction of an added relation is “inbound”. Clicking Image changes the relation direction of the selected Relation. Select a relation row in the right pane and double-click the RelateHints value cell to enter a NEQL search predicate. This NEQL search is used during template deployment to search for and suggest potential related components.

As of Niagara 4.14, in the SlotPathScope column, you can add a value that will be used as the root component during the search for target relation binding while deploying a template to a station. You can add a value by double-clicking the SlotPathScope value cell. The value is a slot path definition, which is a list of hierarchical components separated by a slash. There are no leading or trailing slashes in the value. A value is optional. If you do not enter a value, the entire station will be searched, as it is performed in Niagara 4.13 and prior versions.