Design elements

Summary

Design elements are subdisciplines that you can associate to scope items in the Engineering module. Design elements are used to group labor types above account codes for rolling up data. You can define and configure design elements at the organization level in Settings > Design > Engineering > Design elements. Design elements configured at the organization level are available to all projects in that organization.

To add a new design element, enter a unique name, select a UoM, and an associated EPC option (engineering, procurement, or construction). You can also select a parent design element to group elements together. Click the Add design element icon.

To edit design elements, click in the fields, and then enter text or select a new option. To delete a design element, click the Delete design element icon to the right. To adjust the position of a design element in the list, select the design element, and then click the up or down arrows to the right of the table.

You can also import and export a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet of design elements.

Considerations

• You must have the permission Edit engineering settings.

• The Alternate system UoM field is automatically populated according to the units of measure in the InEight Platform master data library.

• You cannot delete a design element or edit its UoM when it is assigned to a scope item.

• You cannot delete a parent design element when it has other design elements associated with it.

• Although you can group design elements together using parents, you can only assign terminal design elements to scope items.

Related links

You can assign a design element to a scope item in the Resources section of the Add and Edit scope item dialog boxes. See Scope item resources for more information.