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Overriding properties of parent event definitions
A child event definition automatically inherits any properties of its parent event definition. However, in the event definition editor, you can choose to have your child event definition override one or more properties of its immediate parent or any higher-level parents in the same inheritance hierarchy.
To override properties of parent event definitions:
Procedure
- Open your child event definition in the event definition editor.
- In the event definition editor, click the Add
Property from Parent icon
. The Select Contents window opens. By default, the window shows the name of the immediate parent event definition and all of its properties that are not currently overridden in the child event definition.
- If you want to show the names of all parent event definitions in the same inheritance hierarchy as well as all of their properties that are not currently overridden in the child event definition, select the Show all parent events check box.
- In the Select the contents to add list, select one or more properties of one or more parent event definitions that you want to override in your child event definition.
- Click Finish. The overridden properties are added to the child event definition. The overridden properties are flagged with the This property is inherited from the parent event definition symbol
.
What to do next
Now that you have overridden some properties of one or more parent event definitions, you will probably want to change the values of the properties as described in the topic "Changing property values."