It is often necessary to relate a single document in Meridian Enterprise to several objects in a maintenance management system (or vice versa). Examples of this are:
To support one-to-many relationships, the Asset Management Module uses references in the Meridian Enterprise vault. These references are managed using the PowerUser extensions. The extensions create references with the TagObject reference type between the documents and proxies of the Object document type. The Object proxies represent the related assets in the maintenance management system.
The proxy objects can be created:
Note Although not often required, the Asset Management Module also supports object to object references.
To aid users in creating references between the proxy objects and related documents, equipment tag data contained within AutoCAD drawings can be extracted, stored in the vault as described in Configuring the AutoCAD link, and replicated to the Meridian Explorer repository. NEW
For non-AutoCAD documents, the full-text index data of documents can be scanned for tag names that match a regular expression as described in Configuring the document to object relationships . PowerUser users can then create reference links between the documents and the corresponding object tags as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Asset Management Module User's Guide.
Once the links are created, showing the linked documents in Meridian Explorer is done as follows: