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Inheritance of Service Option Groups

You can copy a service option group and paste it as an inherited service option group. The inherited service option group has the same characteristics as the parent service option group from which it was created. The Catalog system shows the inheritance in the inherited service option group, as follows:

• On the Details tab, a note indicates that the service options in this group are inherited.
• On the Definition tab, the inherited service options appear in green.
• If you click the Edit icon of an inherited service option, the Service Option Details tab includes the following information:
  • Text that the option is inherited
  • A link to the parent service option
• If you click the Edit icon of an inherited service option element on the Service Option Details tab, the resulting dialog includes the following information:
  • Text that the service option element is inherited
  • The ID of the parent service option element

The following rules apply to the inheritance relationship:

• If you update a service option element in the parent service option group, the Catalog system automatically makes the same updates to the inherited service option element in the child service option group. The updated values of the parent replace the existing values in the child.
• If you make either of the following updates to the parent service option, the updates do not apply to the child service option:
  • Adding a service option element
  • Deleting a service option element
• If you make either of the following updates to the child service option, you break the inheritance relationship. If this relationship breaks, then changes to the parent no longer propagate automatically to the child.
  • Adding a service option element
  • Deleting a service option element
  • Editing a service option element

When you manually update and save an inherited service option element, the green color disappears, indicating that the element was changed after it was inherited.