Procedures 
You can use the modeling environment for Variant Configuration to create and assign procedures for characteristics, characteristic values, or a configuration profile.
For more information, see Procedures.
Prerequisites
If you want to create procedures for characteristics, characteristic values, or a configuration profile, you must make sure that the material you have loaded in the modeling environment is classified. In addition, you need at least one configuration profile for the material.
You can assign existing procedures only if they are reusable procedures.
Features
You can use the modeling environment to create procedures for
Characteristics
Characteristic values
Configuration profiles
or assign existing reusable procedures.
For more information about creating procedures for characteristics or characteristic values, see Dependencies for Characteristics or Characteristic Values.
Activities
To create a procedure with the modeling environment, proceed as follows:
Model Tree
Use the context menu in the model tree to create procedures for a configuration profile.
Select the configuration profile and use the context menu to create a new procedure or assign an existing one.
When you create a new procedure, you must decide whether the procedure is to be used globally, repeatedly (reusable), locally, or just for this configuration profile.
When you create a local procedure, the system assigns a name to it.
For global procedures, you assign a name yourself.
To assign an existing procedure, enter the name or choose one from the input help.
Choose Procedure and then confirm.
Once it has been created, the new or newly assigned procedure is displayed under the configuration profile in the model tree.
Detailed View
To edit the procedure, go to the detailed view.
Tab Page |
Function |
Basic Data |
Description of the procedure Dependency type: procedure Status Group Maintenance authorization |
Create or edit source code for the procedure |
|
Texts |
Create and edit the language-dependent descriptions |
Display all objects in the model that have been assigned the procedure - if the procedure is a global procedure |
Sequence of Procedures
You can arrange the execution sequence of procedures using drag-and-drop.
The features of drag-and-drop in the model tree are the following:
By default, the system places the dragged procedure before the target procedure.
Sort field numbers are automatically recalculated.
If the sort numbers are ambiguous due to an initial sort field or existing duplicates, the system repairs the entries to reflect the sequence in which they are arranged in the tree.