In IRM, a managed object represents some real-world object or well-defined idea. Managed objects are defined by their Type definition and can be grouped by their Category assignment.
IRM supports the following kinds of managed objects:
Typed objects
Equipment
Cables
Pathways(trays, ducts, or ladders)
Circuits
Software
Categorized objects
Areas
Maintenance holes
Locations(gives a name to some place in an Area -- it’s IRM’s version of a placard on a room’s door)
Spaces(a sub-region of an Area that is defined by a closed polygon drawn in the Area)
Groupings(a set of managed objects that is described by some combination of filters and lists)
Contacts(basic contact information for some person or organization)
Users (a contact with some additional attributes, meant to represent a person working in a facility being managed by IRM -- not to be confused with IRM users!)
Vendors
Projects
Contracts
MAC tickets(move/add/change transactions)
Name duplication
IRM does not allow duplicate names for Managed Objects -- all names must be unique. Note that this restriction applies only to the Name field; duplicate Alternate Names are allowed.
How a potential duplication is handled depends on where it is caught:
If the user attempts to manually create an object with a duplicate name, or rename an object with a name that already exists, a dialog opens that explains that another object with the same name already exists and provides a hyperlink to that object. The new object creation or rename operation fails.
Inside the DDR Import Wizard there is an option to check for duplicated values for several types of fields, all checked by default. During that check, if a DDR import encounters an object with the same name in a context where it is creating a new object, in the last step of the Import (Data Preview) a warning is displayed for the appropriate row as the "Duplicate object" yellow text in the Import result column. Even though a warning is indicated, the object can still be imported.
If a CAD file import would create duplicated objects via Block mapping and the Clear Existing Instances option is not selected and Import Instances is selected, an error results and the instances are not created.
