Viewing and Editing Constituent Properties

When a composite ingredient is expanded to show its constituent substances, you can view properties for each constituent substance.

There are two types of constituent property:

  • Profile properties define general characteristics of the constituent, including its name, its ID, and its function in the formula.
  • Weight properties define constituent quantities and activities.

Most constituent properties are not editable in Formulation Design, because the constituents are substances that are managed in Materials Registration.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Ingredients
Adding an Ingredient to a Formula
Viewing and Editing Ingredient Properties
Ingredient Properties
Expanding Composite Ingredients
Constituent Properties
Working with Similar Materials
QS Ingredients
Adjustable Ingredients

View Constituent Properties

  1. In the formula grid, expand the ingredient whose constituents you want to view. See "Expanding Composite Ingredients."
  2. Select the row of the constituent whose properties you want to view.
  3. Click Open/Close Dock in the vertical bar to the right of the formula grid.
    The Constituent Properties pane opens.
    Note: You can view the properties of another constituent while the Properties panel is open by selecting the row for the other constituent.

Edit Constituent Weights Properties

You can edit some of the Weights properties of a constituent. (You cannot edit any of the Profile properties of a constituent.)

Note: Changes that you make to properties are queued immediately for saving. This means that if your computer loses access to the Formulation Design server, for example because of a network outage, you never lose more than a few seconds of work. When you close a properties pane, all your edits are queued immediately for saving. Because properties are saved automatically, there is no user interface control for saving them.

Before you begin: To perform this task, you must have the Formulation Designer 3DS role.
In the Weights tab, edit options. For details, see Ingredient Properties: Weights.

Hide Constituent Properties

When the Constituent Properties pane is open, click Open/Close Dock at the top of the pane.
The Constituent Properties pane collapses into a vertical bar.