You will use the Family Preferences workspace to define settings for families that are used in Thickness Monitoring.
If you follow the TM Best Practice, you can define settings for the Equipment or TML Group families via this page. If you do not follow the TM Best Practice, you can define settings for families that store equipment or component data. Regardless of whether or not you follow the TM Best Practice, these settings must be configured at the level where records will actually be stored.
The settings that you define on the Family Preferences workspace will define the field in the following records that will be used to populate the following fields in Thickness Measurement Location and Thickness Monitoring Task records in your Corrosion Analysis.
If you follow the TM Best Practice, these settings will determine the field in the Equipment or TML Group record that should be used to:
Populate the TML Asset ID field in the Thickness Measurement Location records that are linked to Equipment or TML Group records.
Populate the Task ID field in Thickness Monitoring Task records that are created automatically and linked to Equipment or TML Group records.
If you do not follow the TM Best Practice, these settings will determine field in the record stores equipment or component data that should be used to:
Populate the TML Asset ID field in the Thickness Measurement Location records that are linked to records that store equipment or component data.
Populate the Task ID field in Thickness Monitoring Task records that are created automatically and linked to records that store equipment or component data.
Additionally, if your Corrosion Analyses will contain TML Group records or other records that store component data, you will also need to define the relationship between certain families via the Family Preferences workspace.
If you follow the TM Best Practice, you should define the relationship between the Equipment family and the TML Group family via this page.
If you do not follow the TM Best Practice, you should define the relationship between the family that stores equipment data and the family that stores component data via this page.