Cloning a Thing Definition

You can create a new thing definition based on an existing thing definition.

1. Click Developer and then on the Developer page, click Thing definitions.
2. Click the Clone icon of the thing definition you want to copy.
   Note:

   Cloning a thing definition, clones the attributes, alarms, properties, methods, tunnels, locations and firmware associated with the thing definition.

   

3. In the Key box on the Adding Thing Definition page, type an identifier for the thing definition that is globally unique within the organization.

   The valid characters for a key are letters, numbers, underscore (_), and hyphen (-).

   

4. In the Name box, change the name for the thing definition.
5. (Optional) Change alarms, attributes, location, methods, and properties as needed, and then click Add.

   The new thing definition is created.

6. (Optional) On the Editing thing definition page, change the presentation characteristics as needed, and then click Update.
7. To finish, click Cancel.