After you define external document references, you select one or more electrical items and associate them with external documents. You can associate an electrical item with a document reference or with an external file that is linked to the document reference. The software allows you to associate single or multiple electrical items with the same external document. Also, you can associate the same external file with multiple items in the software.
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Define a reference for the document that you want to associate. For details, see Define an External Document Reference.
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In the Electrical Index or EDE, select an electrical item.
You can also associate multiple electrical items with the same external document.
In the Electrical Index, select a folder that contains electrical items and highlight in the list view pane
the items that you require.
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Select Actions > Associate Document.
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On the Associate Documents dialog, under Filter by, select a document category and type from the lists.
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Select Add.
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On the Find dialog, select Find Now to display the available documents.
The Find dialog finds only those documents that belong to the document category and type that you select on the Associate Documents dialog.
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Select each document that you want to associate with the selected item and then select Apply.
To associate documents belonging to another category or type, return to the Associate Documents dialog, select the required document category and type, select Associate again, and repeat the succeeding steps in this procedure.