About Events

In GAA, Events store information about events in which a unit suffers a loss of power generation capacity. GAA uses two types of Events:

Primary Event: Stores information about the primary cause of an event. When something goes wrong in a unit, you will record information about the event as a Primary Event. Primary Events are linked to the GAA Unit that represents the unit at which the event occurred.
Contributing Event: Stores additional information about the event, such as a secondary cause. All Contributing Events are linked to a Primary Event. Therefore, to create a Contributing Event, you must have already created the Primary Event to which it will be linked. When you create a Contributing Event, all necessary fields will be populated automatically with values in the Primary Event to which it is linked.

Each event that occurs will be represented by at least a Primary Event. Depending on the event, one or more Contributing Events may need to be created and linked to the Primary Event. Together, the Primary Event and all the Contributing Events that are linked to it represent a single event.

Because Primary Events and Contributing Events are similar in that they share many of the same fields and behave the same way, throughout this documentation we refer to them collectively as Events. Where necessary, we make a distinction between the functionality of Primary Events and Contributing Events. Wherever that distinction is not made, you can assume that all Events function the same way.