The Counter Master Function

In some cases, there is a need to configure components that are not part of the hour receiving component’s structure (system) to also receive the hour updates. This can be due to a different component structure philosophy than described earlier or that you do have components from other systems that should receive running hours based upon another system’s component usage.

This is made possible in TM Master v2 by using the “Running hour Master” function.

Running Hours 

To configure a component, that is not a part of the running hour receiving component structure (system) do the following:

1. Click Inventory | Components | double click the component you wish to add the running hour counter list.
2. Click the Running hours tab.
3. Click the […] button in the field called “Running hour master”.
4. Select the running hour receiving component it should get it updates from. (Please note only components already in the running hour list are listed.)

Additional Counters 

To configure a component to receive from elsewhere within the component structure, do the following:

1. Click [Inventory] → [Components] → double click the component you wish to assign to receive from another component.
2. Click the ‘Additional Counters’ tab
3. Double click the appropriate counter type from the upper left pane
4. Click the […] button in the field called “Counter master”
5. Select the component, from the presented list, that it should get it updates from.

Any running hours added to the selected “Master” will now also be added to this component and its subcomponents. Components with a running hour master will not receive any hours from any of its parents (if any of their parents receives hours), only its master.

Keeping track of which component is following which master is not easy, and can be time consuming, if you had to open each individual component to check. This is why components that have a running hour master, is also listed in the running hour list. Any component in the running hour list that has a [+] sign in front of the component name has a running hour “slave”. Click the [+] to show them. 

The running hour’s view, showing some components that have been configured as running hour masters and their “slaves”.