About Inserting Textual Work Instructions as a Copy

You have two options when you insert work instructions into a catalog: you can insert the instructions as a copy or not as a copy. If you insert a work instruction as a copy, you can modify the work instruction in a specific operation without that changing the reference work instruction in the catalog. If you instead select the simple Insert option, you create a nonmodifiable instance of the work instruction.

See Also
Inserting Cataloged Textual Work Instructions
Insert as Copy
Work Instructions are inserted as a copy when you do want the catalog's work instruction to be modified.

If the person who controls the catalog of work instructions modifies a work instruction in the catalog, the copy is not modified. A user can modify a copy of a work instruction without those modifications affecting the cataloged work instruction.

If you delete a work instruction, the deletion has no effect on the copy of the work instruction. When you delete a work instruction within an operation, you only delete the instance of the instruction. To delete the reference of the work instruction, use the delete command in a search window.

Simple Insert
Work Instructions are inserted when you do not want the catalog's work instructions to modified. Or when you want any modifications to one cataloged work instruction to modify all instances of the same work instruction.

For example, if you insert a work instruction into two operations, a change in the work instruction in the first operation affects the work instruction in the second. Because of the sometimes unexpected consequences of modifying a work instruction, catalog administrators may want to restrict ordinary users from modifying cataloged work instructions.

If you delete a work instruction from an operation, you delete it from all operations containing it, including the catalog.