Active Elements
Depending on your ARDI license, you may be limited to the number of active elements you can have in your ARDI Database at any one time.
The active element count can be slightly confusing.
To determine the number of active elements you're using, you need to count two things - Active Assets and Active Links.
Firstly, count all of the links you have to live data. For every asset property that is connected to live orhistorical data, add one to your 'links' total.
Secondly, count all of your assets that have properties (such as measurements, statuses, media or text). These add one to your 'assets' total.
Your total number of active elements is the higher of the two values.
Example
Our system contains three assets.
In the Location hierarchy, we have 'Headquarters', with 'Lunch Room' below that, and 'Refrigerator' below that.
The refrigerator is connected to two pieces of information - running and temperature, both of which are connected to live data and history.
Our Active Asset Count is only 1 - we only have a single asset that has any properties, the refrigerator.
Our Active Link Count is 2 - we have both 'running' and 'temperature' connected to data.
We divide the link count by 10 - an ARDI license gives you ten links per asset (you can have many more than this, but for licensing purposes, ten links is worth one asset) . This gives a total of 0.2
The total number of active elements in our ARDI database is 1 - which is the larger of the two numbers.
Checking your Active Element Count
You can check your active element count in the license information page.