Managing Action Relationships

An action is a test, inspection, certification, or other action performed to or for a construction material or item. Your agency can create as many action types as needed for the way you work.

The Action Relationship Overview component contains an accordion list of all the action relationships recorded in the system for materials, material categories, items, and item families. To access the Action Relationship Overview component, click the Action Relationships link in the Materials component.

You can use the filters at the top of the component to show only rows of a specific Action Type and/or Record Type. Each row displays an Action button and current values for the Record ID, Action Type, Action Relationship Status Type, and Action Documentation Type fields.

To view more information about an action relationship, expand the row to display information in these fields:

To maintain an action relationship, select Maintain Action Relationship from the Actions menu on the action relationship row. The system takes you to the Action Relationships tab on the summary component for the associated record type, either item, item family, material, or material category, as appropriate. For more information, see Maintaining Action Relationships for a Material, Maintaining Action Relationships for a Material Category, Maintaining Action Relationships for an Item, or Maintaining Action Relationships for an Item Family.

To view or maintain the specifications associated with this action relationship, select Open Reference Specifications from the Actions menu on the action relationship row. The system takes you to the Reference Specification Overview. See Managing Reference Specifications for more information.