Customization of Information Items

It is possible to customize information items in Manufactured Item Definition using CATRsc and CATRule resource files.

This page discusses:

See Also
Using B.I. Essentials in Manufactured Item Definition
Using B.I. Essentials for Product Assignment Status

General Behavior

It is possible to customize the information items that can be accessed from B.I. Essentials. The customization is based on user-defined external resources files.

It is possible to register a customization group that manages the color in the 3D view. It also manages the color of the tree nodes displayed in the tree, and the icons and texts of each row of the labels. A CATRule script is proposed for evaluating properties.

Customization

It is possible to add new information items to the existing list of information items.

B.I. Essentials Gives access to the following predefined information items:

  • Product Assignment Status
  • item Update Status
  • item Completion Status
  • Implement Link Analysis

You can add new items to this list by means of external resources files. A resource file that defines the number of attributes and the color to be used for each, and rule files that define the information to be displayed.

Required Files

A number of files must be created in specified directories.

Customization of the information items requires:

  • A CATRsc file named PPR_Live_Process_CompassCusto.CATRsc must be created and located in ..\resources\plmcompass and must contain all the customization details as shown in the following sections
  • CATRule files (scripts) created in ..\resources\knowledge\scripts. These CATRule file names must be declared in the previously created file PPR_Live_Process_CompassCusto.CATRsc.

PPR_Live_Process_CompassCusto.CATRsc

The name PPR_Live_Process_CompassCusto is mandatory and cannot change. This file must be created in ..\resources\plmcompass. Example:

Quadrant.East.NumberOfCustomizations = "1";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.NameOfCustomization = "Process Type";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Color.Rule.DELFmiProcessReferenceSample = "ProcessType_Shade";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Label.Rule.DELFmiProcessReferenceSample = “ProcessType_Label";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.NumberOfColors = "3";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col1.Legend = "Assemble Process";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col1.Red = "255";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col1.Green = "0";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col1.Blue = "0";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col1.Transparency = "0";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col2.Legend = "Provided Part Process";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col2.Red = "0";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col2.Green = "255";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col2.Blue = "0";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col2.Transparency = "0";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col3.Legend = "Fasten Process";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col3.Red = "0";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col3.Green = "0";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col3.Blue = "255";
Quadrant.East.Cust1.Col3.Transparency = "0";

ProcessType_Label.CATRule

This file must be created in ..\resources\knowledge\scripts. Example:

let Value1(String)
let Property1(String)
let LabelDescription(String)
Value1 = ThisObject.PLM_External
IDProperty1 = "Property1|"+"Product Name : "+Value1+"|I_Purple"
LabelDescription=Property1
Parameters->SetAttributeString("MyLabelForPLMCompass",LabelDescription)

ProcessType_Shade.CATRule

This file must be created in ..\resources\knowledge\scripts. Example:

if (ThisObject.V_discipline=="CreateAssembly")
Parameters->SetAttributeString("MyColorForPLMCompass","255|0|0|0")
else if (ThisObject.V_discipline=="Provide")
Parameters->SetAttributeString("MyColorForPLMCompass","0|255|0|0"
else if (ThisObject.V_discipline=="Fasten")
Parameters->SetAttributeString("MyColorForPLMCompass","0|0|255|0")

Example of Customization

This example illustrates how to color item tiles and tree nodes according to the item type.

When the CATRsc and CATRule files are defined as shown in the previous section, a new information item called Process Type is added to the list. This item can be accessed from B.I. Essentials.

The customization rule colors the tiles and tree nodes according to their type as follows:

  • The Manufacturing Assemblies in red
  • The Provided Parts in green
  • The Fasten steps in blue

Item types that are not customized are colored gray.



In this example, the item representations are colored according to their V_discipline attribute. This corresponds to the Type attribute in the item Properties dialog box. For example: