Function properties
When a “function” is selected, the Properties view shows the following attributes
Function properties
Application Roles
This field shows configuration related to application templating. It is mostly informative, although it is editable to cover edge cases. During normal engineering, this field is not supposed to be modified manually by the user.Description
The description field serves as a quick documentation. If the Function is not Suppressed in SCL (see below), the corresponding SCL element will share this description. The generated pdf documentation will contains the description field.Document Reference
This field shows the path to the Word document that is attached as reference to this function and use on the pdf documentation generation.Name
The name of the element. If the Function is not Suppressed in SCL (see below), the corresponding SCL element will also share this name.Parent Path
The Id of the hierarchical parent - typically the root element of the function diagram. In the case of equipment functions the Id of the equipment.Power System Resource References
In the extension of the upcoming IEC 61850-6-100 ‘Functional decomposition’, it is possible to have arbitrary associations of Functions to elements of the primary process, ‘Power System Resources’. The value of this field can not be directly changed but shows changes performed in the ‘Configure Function’ dialog.Redundant
A function can be marked as redundant. This currently affects only Report subscription - interface logical nodes in redundant functions can not subscribe independently to reports, but will share the subscription with the main function. The name of the redundant function must contain the name of the main function. We recommend a naming convention of “MainFunction_Red”.Suppressed in SCL
Functions can be used either as full-fledged SCL entities, or as purely organizational structure within STS. A function that is marked as ‘Suppressed in SCL’ will not be visible in an exported SSD/SCD or other SCL artifact. Its contents (logical nodes, subequipment) will be placed in the hierarchical level that contains the function, usually a bay or conducting equipment. Functions that are present in SCL will be represented by a SCL element that fits the context ( i.e. TFunction, TSubFunction, TEqFunction, TEqSubFunction).