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The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) allows you to define additional groupings of design objects. This is useful when you want to divide the design for contracting or fabrication purposes.

The first level of grouping object is the Project, or As-Built. This grouping helps owner operators manage the project work on existing facilities. EPCs can use the Project grouping for major divisions of responsibility. An object can only belong to one project.

You can nest additional types of groupings, called WBS Items, under the project. To assign an object to a WBS Item, it must be claimed to the same project as the WBS Item. An object can belong to more than one WBS Item. Your company can customize the type of WBS Item by editing the Catalog. The default types delivered with the product are suitable for contracting activities in the different disciplines. For example, the piping application uses the WBS Item groupings to manage the assignment of pipes to specific isometric drawings.

You can assign objects to WBS projects and items after they are created. You can also assign the objects automatically as you create them. If the current active group is a project, all new objects are assigned to that active project when they are created. If the current active group is a WBS Item, objects are first assigned to the parent project of the WBS Item, and then to the WBS Item.

When you edit an object, it retains its current project or WBS Item relationship. You change the project parent of an object by selecting the object and running Claim. You can change the WBS Item relationship with Assign to WBS.

See Appendix: Implementing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and WBS Items and Projects.

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