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title: "Creating a New CI Relation Type"
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description: "Describe the connections between CIs in your SysAid CMDB by adding new CI relation types. "
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published: 2022-06-07T10:15:12Z
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# Creating a New CI Relation Type

Here you can add new relation types to describe the connections between CIs in your SysAid CMDB.

![CIRelationTypefilesCIRelationtypeCIRelationtype.jpg](https://cdn.document360.io/52d3cb6c-cc81-43c2-b6f7-cbabcb449271/Images/Documentation/CIRelationTypefilesCIRelationtypeCIRelationtype.jpg?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-10-17T02%3A31%3A21Z&se=2026-10-17T03%3A31%3A21Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=J37NIHHRznnSimhGU09dgEYA7N%2FcqGupeWFx2UfIYXw%3D) CI relationships work in two directions: what the CI affects, and what's affected by the CI. When you connect two CIs using a particular relationship type, one CI becomes the affecting CI and the other becomes the affected CI.

Examples for CI relation types you may want to add are:

- Responsible for/Under the responsibility of
- Owns/Owned by
- Received by/Delivered to

Note that predefined CI relation types can't be edited.