Types of Relations

Relations can be either “direct” or “implied” and are defined as follows:

Direct relations are relations that you apply directly to a component. When adding a relation, your choices are limited to relations that are defined in the any of the Tag Dictionaries on your system.
Implied relations are determined automatically and applied to a component by the system. Implied relations are defined in a SmartTagDictionary under its Tag Rules folder (BTagRuleList). When an application queries for the relations on a component in the station, the SmartTagDictionary executes code that interprets the Tag Rules against the given component and returns a list of implied relations.