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Assign Symptom Applicability Dialog Box
In this dialog box, you can define applicability settings to be assigned to the symptoms in a Symptom Set.
The Assign Symptom Applicability dialog box launches when you select an element in a Symptom Set document then choose Edit > Assign Symptom Applicability in Arbortext Editor.
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The menu option is available if you have selected a symptom-category, symptom or symptom-value element.
Your Arbortext Editor session must be connected to a Windchill server to add applicability to symptoms. Product hierarchy information is retrieved from the relevant product in the Windchill repository.
For more information, see Connecting to a PTC Server.
• Product Hierarchy — displays the product hierarchies from the current Windchill server
You can select single or multiple nodes in a hierarchy, to identify the part, assembly or model for which the symptom is valid.
◦ You can choose any combination of items in a product hierarchy.
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If you select from multiple products or models, Arbortext Editor will not check that the selections are not related to each other in the hierarchy.
◦ Multiple selections are joined with an AND operator.
◦ Existing settings for the selected element display when you open the dialog box.
◦ Errors are generated if an existing setting is no longer valid, for example if a specified node has been removed from the product hierarchy.
• Search — provides the ability to search for a node in the product hierarchy tree structure. The tree will include search results that match the current search string in addition to objects that were previously selected.
• Clear — clears the search box.
• Clear All — clears all selections
• OK — assigns the defined applicability to the effectivity attribute of the selected element
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The effectivity attribute is hidden by default. You can use the Modify Attributes option to view its value.
• Cancel — closes the dialog box without making changes to the effectivity attribute of the selected element
For more information about assigning applicability to symptoms, see Creating a Symptom Set.