About Adding Equipment and Functional Location Records to an ACA

Equipment and Functional Location records can be added to an ACA by linking:

A Functional Location record to an ACA System record that is linked directly to the ACA record.

Only families that participate in the Has Functional Location relationship as successors to the ACA System family can be linked directly to an ACA System record. You will know if a Functional Location record is linked directly to an ACA System record if the ID of that record appears in the group of items under that system in the left pane.
A Functional Location record that is linked to an Equipment record through the Safety Analysis Has Equipment relationship and directly to an ACA System record. If such a relationship exists, when you add the Functional Location record to the analysis, the Equipment record will be added automatically.

Only records for a family that participates in the Safety Analysis Has Equipment relationship as a successor to the Functional Location family will be added to the ACA automatically.
An Equipment record to an ACA System record that is linked directly to the ACA record.

Only families that participate in the Safety Analysis Has Equipment relationship as a successor to the ACA System family can be linked directly to an ACA System record. You will know if an Equipment record is linked directly to an ACA System record if the ID of that record appears in the location/equipment ID column in a subsequent row below the root level.

Note: You can add an Equipment or Functional Location record to only one ACA. If you try to add to an ACA an Equipment or Functional Location record that already belongs to another ACA, a message will appear, indicating that you cannot add the record because it already belongs to another analysis.
An Equipment record manually to a Functional Location record that is linked directly to the ACA System record.

Only families that participate in the Safety Analysis Has Equipment relationship as successors to a predecessor Functional Location family can be linked to a Functional Location record. You cannot link an Equipment record to another Equipment record via ACA. You will know if an Equipment record is linked to a Functional Location record if the ID of that record appears in the Equipment ID column in a subsequent row below the row containing the predecessor record that appears in the Function Location / Equipment ID columns.

Note: You can link an Equipment record to only one Functional Location record. If you try to link to a Functional Location record an Equipment record that is already linked to another Functional Location record, a message will appear, indicating that you cannot link the record because it is already linked to another Functional Location record.