Configuring Relative Facilities

This topic describes how to configure relative facility definition sets and definitions via the Canvas user interface. The relative facility relationships are configured on the Backstage view, Settings page.

• See Using Relative Facilities in Canvas for more information about this feature, including examples, design suggestions, and configuring relative facility definitions via script
• See the Relative Facility Tree for information about a control you can add to your screens to show a hierarchical tree of CygNet facilities based on the relative facility settings

Configure a Relative Facility Definition Sets

Different relative facility definition sets can be created to associate single or multiple Facility services with different facility attributes in a multi-site domain. Multiple Facility services can be associated with the same relative facility definition.

1. In the Backstage view, go to the Settings page, and click Relative facilities to open the Relative Facilities dialog box.

Relative Facility Definition Sets

2. Click in the area titled Click here to add new… to create a new definition set for your associated Facility service(s). Type a name for your definition and press enter.
3. Click the Default (Set as default) check box to indicate whether this definition set is the default to use in your Canvas screens.
4. Or click (Delete definition set) to remove a selected definition set as necessary.
5. Click (Edit definition set) to open the Relative Facility Definitions dialog box for the selected definition set. See Configuring a Relative Facility Definition to learn how to configure the definitions.
6. Click Test to test that your configured relative facility links resolve to the appropriate facility tags in your environment. See Testing Relative Facility Links for more information.
7. Once the definition set is configured, click OK to save the configured relative facility definition sets to the global settings file, and close the dialog box.
8. Or click Cancel to abort and close the Relative Facilities dialog box.