Configuring attach preferences

In the attach preferences, you can specify the display of records in the attach windows and the insert windows. For Smart Attach uploads of child records, you can specify whether to overwrite the values that are in TRIRIGA® records. You can use default values or values from a mappable drawing layer to overwrite the records. You can also enable the show prefix and show suffix functions in the Upload area of the Smart Attach window. When enabled, you can specify a prefix or suffix value to add to the uploaded drawing item values.

About this task

When the Show Initial Hierarchy for Attachment field is selected, the initial list of records displays for you to select a record to attach to. When cleared, no initial list of records displays, and you must search for a record. If your location hierarchy is large, or you want to reduce the initial display load time, you can clear the Show Initial Hierarchy for Attachment field.

For the Upload preferences, you can specify whether the Smart Attach upload process overwrites existing TRIRIGA record values with the values that you specify. If you do not enable the update of existing records, only the area value is overwritten. If you enable the update of existing records, you can specify the data to use for the upload:

Use drawing data
Overwrites existing records only if a data value is found on the selected mappable layer.
Use drawing data or default data
Always overwrites existing records. Use the data value that is found on the selected mappable layer. If no value is found, use the default value that you specify in the Upload area.

The attach preferences that you set apply across TRIRIGA CAD Integrator/Publisher for the current user.

Procedure

  1. Select IBM TRIRIGA > Preferences > Attach.
  2. Select or clear the preferences.
  3. Click Apply, and click OK.