Create Custom Calculation Policies

Steps

Create a new policy to represent your custom DME calculations.

IMPORTANT: Make sure that your new policy is activated.
On the Policy Designer page, in the left pane, select Design.

The Design workspace appears.
In the workspace, in the Inputs section, select , and then select Entity.

A new Entity node appears.
Select the new Entity node, and then, in the Properties window, in the Family ID box, select the family of the custom DME you are calculating.

Note: Repeat steps 4 and 5 to add any other entity nodes required for calculations, such as the related Analysis, Consequence Evaluation calculations, or other families that are related to the same analysis.
Using the Calculation nodes, perform all calculations needed on the Entity node.
On the workspace heading, in the Actions section, select , and then select Edit Entity.

A new Edit Entity node appears in the Design workspace.
Connect the DME calculation nodes created in step 4 to the Edit Entity node.
Select the Edit Entity node , and in the Properties window:
- In the Family ID box, select the custom DME family you want to calculate.
- In the Entity Key box, select and then, in the drop-down list box, select the input Entity node created in step 4.
- In the Select Field box, select Entity Key.
- In the Field box, select the field that you would like to update.
- In the Value box, select , and then, in the drop-down list box, select the input node that contains the value to which you want to set the field.
  
  Note: If the input node is an entity node, select the field that contains your value in the Select Field box.
In the upper-left corner of the workspace, select .

The custom DME calculation policy is created.

IMPORTANT: No outputs are created from this policy. All updates and calculations resulting from the policy are updated in the Edit Entity node.

What's Next?

Create Custom Degradation Mechanism Evaluation (DME) Validation Policies.