Authoring

Textual Instructions Authoring

Select an option:

Use Formatted Text

When you select Use Formatted Text, you can add text formatting features to a Text, Alert, Sign Off and Data Collect work instructions. The formatting appears when you generate the documentation.

Note: Once you create a work instruction with formatted text, you cannot remove the formatting by later selecting Plain Text.

You can add these kinds of formatting or other improvements to your text:

• Printing
• Templates
• Expanded Paste Capabilities (for example, paste text only)
• Undo/Redo
• Find/Replace
• Strikethrough font
• Sub/Superscript
• Format removal
• Numbered or Bullet lists
• Paragraph indenting
• Hyperlinks
• Inserting Anchors in text
• Expansive special character list
• Inserting images (Images can be resized by specifying the height and width values within the Image Properties.)
• Inserting tables
• Horizontal lines
• Different font types

Use Plain Text

If you select this option, work instructions remain in plain text.

By default, Use Formatted Text is selected.

By default, this check box is selected.

Data Collect Plan Formulas Validity

Check for indirect impacts due to previous invalid Formulas

Use this to identify indirect impacts.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Check if Requirement is collected in the current Workplan/System

This makes an additional verification to see a Requirement used in the formula is no longer assigned to a previous Row of type Collected.

Note: The previous Row could either be:

• A previous Row in the same DCP (for which the Formula is being checked).
• A Row of any previous DCP under the current Operation.
• A Row of any DCP under any previous Operation(s) in the current Workplan / System.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Textual Instructions Creation

Set Time Mode on parent operation to "Work Instruction Time"

By default, cycle time for a work instruction keeps the parent operation's cycle time constant. The total number of work instructions for an operation equally share the time of the parent operation. The system automatically recalculates each work instruction's share when you add a new work instruction or delete an existing instruction, assuming the addition or deletion occurs within the Work Instructions app.

If selecting the Set Time Mode on Parent Operation to Work Instruction Time, whenever you create a work instruction, you define the parent operation's Time mode to Work Instruction. This enables you to specify a cycle time for an individual work instruction.

By default, this check box is cleared.

Views and Dressups

Default Magnifier Picture Size (% of Screen)

You can specify more or less of the screen for magnification of pictures on the screen.

FTA Requirement Surface Display

You can use the slider to specify the Transparency of Associated Item.

The same transparency value is applied to all associated Mfg Items on which the Surface display is selected toON.