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Titles and subtitles

Configure your designs to ensure clear labelling of items​

Title and Subtitle are mandatory attributes included in all designs and subsequently all items created from those designs. Use them to identify items by displaying key information at a glance.

An item's title/subtitle is defined by its design. When editing a design, there are three ways you can configure its Title and Subtitle attributes:

Leave the fields blank​

If left blank, items created from the design will use their Item ID for their title and the design's name for their subtitle.

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Enter a fixed title/subtitle​

If you simply enter text in these fields, all items created from the design will have the same title/subtitle.

In the example below, every item created from the Bollard design will have Title set to Bollard and Subtitle set to Type 2 Solar. This may be preferable for some scenarios.

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Create a variable title/subtitle​

A variable links to an attribute on the design and displays its content.

If you include variables in these fields using the Title/Subtitle Editor, each item created from the design will have a unique title/subtitle.

In the example below, Title contains a variable linking to Unit Number, and Subtitle contains a variable linking to Unit Type. The created item can be clearly identified by its unique title.

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Update existing items with changes​

Once you've saved your changes, they'll apply to new items created from the design.

Existing items will be updated the next time they're edited (by a person or a system process). Alternatively, you can perform a bulk Touch action to update them all immediately, see Bulk actions.