Creating, Changing, and Displaying Classes

Procedure

From the classification menu, choose Classes.

1. Enter the class name and class type. Choose the Last processed classes pushbutton to choose one of the last 10 classes you worked on. These can also be classes that were processed with different applications.

2. Choose one of the following processing types:

3.  Create Class

    Change Class

    Display Class

   Create class with template

4. Start processing on the Basic Data tab:

Enter a description of your class and check the status. You can only assign objects to a class if the class has been released (see Maintaining Basic Data).

You can save your class once you have entered this data.

Processing on the other tabs in class maintenance is optional:

• Keywords

You can assign keywords to your class, to help you to find the class more easily using a match code.

• Entering Characteristics

You can assign characteristics to your class. These describe the objects that you classify in your class.

• Texts

You can enter texts for your class.

• Assigning Documents

You can assign documents to a class.

• Standard

You can create a class to match a specific standard (for example, DIN, ISO, or ANSI).

• Additional Data

You can specify that your class can be used as a BOM item for a configurable material.