Peer-to-Peer Relationship Requires Updating Twice?

ahoehneDLMRP
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Peer-to-Peer Relationship Requires Updating Twice?

ahoehneDLMRP
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When working with cross-discipline peer-to-peer relationships, specifically electrical/pneumatic relationships, I've noticed a quirk and I'm wondering if others have experienced this behavior. 

 

I create an electrical schematic component (solenoid) and then on my pneumatic drawings I create a corresponding solenoid valve.  I then edit the pneumatic component and use the "Tags Used: Schematic" approach to browse to the solenoid tag and copy that to the WDTAGALT attribute on the pneumatic component.  This sets everything appropriately on the pneumatic component, copies over descriptions, etc., but I've noticed that I don't get the dialog box asking to update the corresponding electrical component (i.e. the Ok/Task/Skip option dialog).  However, if I repeat this procedure a second time, I do get the dialog box to pop up, and once I hit Ok, the solenoid on the electrical side does get updated to show the WDTAGALT for the pneumatic component, and the peer-to-peer relationship seems to be established.  I've tried this with multiple symbols and in multiple projects and it appears to behave the same way regardless.

 

Am I missing something here, or has anyone else encountered this?  It seems like I should only have to do this once to establish the relationship and update everything accordingly.

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alds02
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Yes, the exact same issue occurs for me. If I don't go back and do the WDTAGALT procedure a second time, I can make all kinds of changes to the valve that never go back to the solenoid. But it works in the other direction- if I make changes to the solenoid, they push through to the valve. After redoing the WDTAGALT procedure, things work as expected.

 

Also, the tags-used browser is not very easy to sort through. Nearly every time I have to "show all components for all families" and scroll around to find my solenoid. Otherwise the list is always empty.

ahoehneDLMRP
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Interesting that it appears not to be just me, then.  I can't think of a reason that this would be the intended behavior, and it seems like a bug.  Is this something worth sharing in the "Ideas" area, or is there a better place to report bugs?

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alds02
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I'm not sure how to report a bug, but I agree that it seems to fall into the bug category rather than an improvement idea.

 

It does not work as expected because the parallel scenario of schematic and panel components does not require this extra effort. That's how I come to the opinion that it is a bug.

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ramesh.kambang
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I guess @murnenp  will be able to help you to log this.

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