Declaring a Generative Library Instruction

As an administrator, you can create a text instruction, declare it a generative instruction, and store it in a catalog. A generative instruction is not complete by itself. It relies on customer content to generate the final instructions.

This task shows you how to:

Create the Instruction

You can create a catalog of instructions.

Before you begin: Generative work instructions require an administrator to set up business logic and to define keywords and delimiters. For example, if you want the generative instruction to look for an item to an operation, set up the keyword Item. Delimiters are the characters such as brackets that define the keywords apart from normal text.
  1. Click Create Text Instruction , and call it Instruction Gen Library add text to the instruction.
    For example, 
    Drill 10 holes in [Item], then polish the surface.
  2. Select OK.


  3. Click Declare as Generative Library Instruction and click the work instruction on the Textual Instructions panel.
    The icon marking the instruction is modified to show that it is a generative instruction . A message appears showing you how the keywords were resolved.

Update the Instruction in the Catalog

You can modify the instruction in the catalog and the changes appear in the generative work instructions that in the catalog.

  1. Modify the text of the generative work instruction in the catalog.
  2. Use the Generative Instruction Update Status on operations or a work instruction to see whether you require an update.
  3. Click Update Generative Instruction .
    A note on the screen tells you which items have been updated.
    Note: Generative instructions can also be updated if the business logic or objects referenced by keywords are modified.

Update an Instance of an Instruction

You can modify a generative instruction in an operation without modifying the generative instruction in a catalog. Once you do this, however, it is no longer linked to the catalog instruction.

  1. Right-click the instruction in the Textual Instruction panel, and select Quick Edit.
  2. Modify the instruction.