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Selection: New/changed functions

Description

Engineering change management

As per Release 3.0, object search is subject to engineering change management. The representation of the characteristics and of the their values and allocations depends on the validity date which you enter on the initial screen.

Search result

To reduce the system reponse time for object search, you should use the following functions:

• You can use the indicator Objects with characteristics but no values of the function View -> Scope to define whether the search result is to include objects whose characteristics have no values assigned to them. If you remove the indicator, the search result shows only those objects whose values meet the search criteria you entered. This reduces the system reponse time.

• At regular intervals, you should reproduce the valuation statistics for classes with a larger number of objects allocated to them. To do this,
  from the initial screen of classification, choose the function
  Environment -> Reorganization -> Create statistics. The system uses the valuation statistics as a criterion wird als Entscheidungshilfe for accessing the database. The characteristics are sorted by the number of objects with identical characteristic values. Since you lichst wenig Zuordnungen mit identischem Wert haben, die Suche am schnellsten eingeschränkt wird, stehen diese Merkmale in der Suchstatistik an erster Stelle.
  Je häufiger Zuordnungen neu aufgenommen, geändert oder gelöscht werden desto kleiner sollten die Abstände sein, in denen Sie die Statistik auffrischen.

As of Release 3.0, you have a number of new options for displaying the search result:

• On the search result screen, you can now restrict the search result further. To do this, place the cursor on the description of the characteristic and choose the function Extras -> Nachselektion. Enter the value that you want the system to search for.

• In the search result, you can search for a particular character string. To do this, choose the function Edit -> Find, then specify whether you want to search for an object, an object description, a characteristic value, an object type, or a status.
  Before you can search for a characteristic value, you must select the characteristic description.
  The object that contains the character string is displayed in the first line and highlighted.

• You can now define that the objects in the search result are displayed together with their object type. This is useful for classes that you can use to classify objects of various object types. For example, materials have the object type MAT. To activate the indicator, use the function View -> Display options... .

Filter reports

You can define your own filter reports for restricting object search according to your own criteria. As of Release 3.0, you have to change these filter reports according to the sample report RMCLSFIL.