In this section you can manage relationships between locations and equipment or individual equipment entities. Relationships need to be defined for most use cases in the Building X apps to work.

Depending on the selected entity, different fields are available.

All entities have a Location. Editing the location has consequences for other apps using this entity.

Relationships for sites

For sites (buildings, floors and rooms), the Relationships card offers the option to add and manage pieces of equipment. If sub-entities, such as floors, floor segments, rooms or room segments are available, they can be displayed. Floor segments or room segments can be edited.

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Relationships card for a building

Relationships for equipment

For pieces of equipment, the Relationships card offers the option to add data points and set the relationship to other pieces of equipment.

The following fields are available specifically to pieces of equipment:

  • Controlled by: Displays the relationship between the device that controls the piece of equipment. This field is automatically populated with the corresponding device if a data point is selected in the field below.
  • Data points: Displays the number of data points that are associated with this entity. You can create a virtual data point for this entity.
  • Polling configuration: Define the polling settings for the data point group. If no specific configuration is made here, the settings from the connector are used. See Configuring polling time.
  • Part of: Displays the equipment that this piece of equipment is part of. This field is automatically populated if this piece of equipment is added as Part to another piece of equipment.
  • Supplied by: Displays the equipment that supplies this piece of equipment. This field is automatically populated if this piece of equipment is added as Supplies to another piece of equipment.
  • Parts: Displays the pieces of equipment that are a part of this piece of equipment. This field is automatically populated if another piece of equipment is added as Part of to this piece of equipment.
  • Supplies: Displays the piece of equipment that is supplied by this piece of equipment. This field is automatically populated if another piece of equipment is added as Supplied by to this piece of equipment.

For a visualization of the relationship types, see Relationship types.

Relationships card for a piece of equipment