About Families Delivered with Read-Only Properties

Baseline families can be delivered with read-only properties such that you will be not be able to perform any of the following actions on the family:

Modifying certain properties of the family.
Customizing the rules for a family.
Creating new fields for the family.
Customizing certain properties for the fields within a family.
Deleting the fields within a family.
Deleting the family.

In other words, families that are delivered in this way can be managed only by GE Digital.

In the Configuration Manager, when you select a family that has been delivered in this way, the properties that you cannot modify will be displayed as read-only in the interface. In addition, some options that allow you to customize the family or its fields will be disabled.

The following table lists the UI elements that are disabled when you select a family that has been delivered with read-only properties.

Location in the Configuration Manager	Interface Element
Family Information section	ID text box Physical Table Name text box Database View Name text box Delete Family button
Family Fields section	Create New Field Delete Field(s) Data Type Unit of Measure list Field ID text box ID Field check box Spread to Sub Families check box Hyperlink Field check box Formula Field check box Keep History? check box Active Status check box