About Measurement Location Templates in Template Groups

A Measurement Location Template serves as a template that you can use as the basis for creating multiple checkpoints, which are the stops along a Route at which a device user will need to record a reading. When you add a Measurement Location Template record to a Template Group, the corresponding node appears in the left pane on the page for a Template Group in a position that is relevant to the currently selected node.

Before you add a Measurement Location Template to a Template Group, use the following guidelines to determine which node to select in the left pane on the page for a Template Group so that the new node will appear in the necessary location:

If you want the new Measurement Location Template node to appear below a Measurement Location Template node, select the Measurement Location Template node.
If you want the new Measurement Location Template node to appear below a Checkpoint Condition node as the first successor node, select the Checkpoint Condition node.
If you want the new Measurement Location Template node to appear at the end of the Template Group, select the Template Group node.

In addition, you can add the same Measurement Location Template to a Template Group more than once, and each instance of that Measurement Location Template can participate in independent predecessor and successor relationships. In other words, a single Measurement Location Template can be represented by multiple nodes in a Template Group. If you modify the contents of a Measurement Location Template that is represented by multiple nodes, your changes will be reflected in all the nodes that represent that Measurement Location Template.

For example, you can add to a Template Group the Measurement Location Template record with the ML Description General Vent Check to a Template Group as nodes with the sequence values - 2 and 4. You can also add Checkpoint Condition nodes and other Measurement Location Template nodes as predecessors and successors to each of the three nodes. Further, if you modify the Template ID value in the Measurement Location Template record from General Vent Check to Vent Check, all the nodes that represent that record will be updated automatically with the new Template ID value. The following image shows a Template Group that contains multiple instance of the same Measurement Location Template record with the Template ID value Vent Check.