Assigning Inspection Methods

Prerequisites

The inspection method that you want to assign to the master inspection characteristic must already exist in the system.

Procedure

On the general data screen for the master inspection characteristic, choose Insp. methods .

The Assigned Inspection Methods screen appears.

Note Note

You can assign several inspection methods to a master inspection characteristic, however, you can only assign one inspection method to an inspection characteristic in a task list.

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In the Method field, enter an inspection method directly, or by using the input help.

Note Note

If you enter the inspection method directly, the current version of the inspection method is assigned to the master inspection characteristic. If you select an inspection method using the input help, you can assign each inspection method version, if you set the All versions indicator on the selection screen. If you do not set this indicator, the system only displays the current versions of the inspection method in the selection list.

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Choose Continue .

The general data screen for the master inspection characteristic reappears.

Save your data.

Additional Functions in Inspection Method Assignment

Function	Menu Path/ Pushbutton	What You Should Know
Checking an assignment	Check pushbutton	After you have assigned the inspection methods, you can have the system check your entries.
Deleting a method assignment	Delete assignment method pushbutton	You can cancel the assignment of the inspection methods you selected.
Displaying a method	Display Method pushbutton	You can display the selected inspection methods.
Assigning code groups or selected sets to the method	Catalog details… pushbutton	You can assign code groups or selected sets to an inspection method. The procedure for assigning catalogs to an inspection method is similar to the procedure for the assignment of code groups or selected sets to a master inspection characteristic . If code groups or selected sets are assigned both in the master inspection characteristic and to the inspection method, the data assigned to the inspection method has precedence in the task list. The data assigned to the master inspection characteristic is assigned by item, if the item does not already have an entry. If, for example, catalog data is assigned to the inspection method in items 1, 2 and 4 and to the master inspection characteristic in items 1, 2 and 3, then the catalog data for the master inspection characteristic is assigned in the task list in item 3, in addition to the data from the inspection method.
Display assignment history	Assignment history pushbutton	You can display a chronological list of all inspection methods that were assigned to the master inspection characteristic.
Check catalog assignment	Check pushbutton on Inspection Catalogs for Inspection Method screen	After you have assigned code groups or selected sets to the inspection method, you can have the system check your entries.
Display catalogs	Display catalog pushbutton on Inspection Catalogs for Inspection Method screen	You can display the selected code groups or selected sets.
Display assignment history	Assignment history pushbutton on Inspection Catalogs for Inspection Method screen	You can display a chronological list of all code groups or selected sets that were assigned to the inspection method.