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title: "How to create families?"
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tags: ["Settings"]
updated: 2026-10-20T15:46:04Z
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# How to create families?

- [x] PT
- [x] ES

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When creating a family, you can associate characteristics and failure typifications (symptoms, causes and actions).

To create a new family, follow these steps:

1. Go to **Settings | General | Families**;
2. In the list of families, click on **Create**;
3. On the creation screen, fill in the family details.

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### Family characteristics

In the **Characteristics** section, you can assign one or more characteristics to the family. The characteristics can be of the following types:

- Number;
- Text;
- Date/Time;
- Boolean;
- Enum.

When saving the family record, the following validations are performed:

- No repeated characteristics can exist;
- **Number**: checks if the text entered in the **Value** field is a number, if the number of decimal places matches the unit of the characteristic, and if the separator matches the user's language;
- **Date/Time**: checks if the text entered in the **Value** field is a **date** and/or a time;
- **Boolean** : checks if the text entered in the **Value** field is **0** for False and **1** for True;
- **Enum**: checks if the enum value matches the values of the selected characteristic.

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### **Failure typifications**

To perform the typification of possible failures associated with the family being created or edited, follow these steps:

1. Click on the **+** icon, in the upper left corner of the form, next to the **General** tab, and select **Failure Typifications**;
2. In the grid, select the **symptoms**, **causes** and **actions** associated with the family.