Background

The description for Equipment in element info dialog is generated as below rule, the highlighted part can be multiple if have different component/nodes: "Class" + "Manufacturer" + "Component count" + "x" + "Material description"

The only thing which could be edited in ("Class" + "Manufacturer" + "Component count" + "x" + "Material description") is the Material description by making changes to the equipment’s DNA file.

If you want to edit the Description of the equipment directly from the Element Properties, you can follow this article.

Steps to Accomplish

1. Open the Equipment file and select the equipment which you want to change the description for.
   For Example: Panel.
   
   
   
2. Material Description for "Class" + "Manufacturer" + "Component count" + "x" + "Material description"
    comes from the DNA file as shown in the image below:
   
   
   
3. Now change the description as needed.
   For example:
   
   
   
4. Description value edited in the last step could be seen in the Element Properties.
   
   Note: We cannot make any manual change to the description value from here.
   
   
5. To make it editable, Open Electrical_RCM.01.02.ecschema.xml and make the changes as shown below:
   
   
   
6. You can update the database and check the report as well.
   
   
   

See Also

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