CIMPLICITYCriteria Set Maintenance
A criteria set further refines a range. Therefore, you must have at least one range defined before you create a criteria set. A criteria set can filter an item by Standard attribute, Extended attribute, or Attribute expression.
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In TrackerCfg_UI, select Tools.
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Select Criteria Set Maintenance from the drop-down list. The Criteria Sets window appears.
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You can use the buttons in the window to do any of the following.
Button Description OK Closes the Criteria Sets browser and enters the selected range into the Criteria Set Name field in the P1 dialog box. Cancel Closes the Criteria Sets browser without selecting a range. Add Opens a new Criteria Set Editor dialog box. Edit Opens the Criteria Set Editor dialog box for the selected range. Delete Deletes a selected criteria set. - To configure the criteria set, enter or edit the criteria that to select a group of items
in a selected range in the Criteria Set Editor dialog box.
Example:
Blue computers frequently have to be separated out from other colors.
The orders can go through the early evaluation steps.
A criteria set for the COLOR blue in the MASTRBLEND range can single out blue orders, when necessary, before they go into the $OM_PLANT_BLND region.
Field Description Name Criteria set name. Range Range that the criteria set will filter. Hold name Second filter criteria. The filter order is as follows.
- Only the criteria range and, if specified, the location pass through the filter.
- Of the Items the pass through the first filter, only items that are included in the named hold remain.
Hold blocks include:
Apply Hold to Range Holds all items in an entire range. Apply Hold to Item Holds an item at a particular location in a specified region. Location (Optional) Items in the selected location are filtered out.
Location can be defined as:
Location number
Location code for a sequence of locations within a region.
The selected location is included if RSA finds it in any region/location included in the range. If the location is not in the range, this criterion is ignored
Note: Location 0 specifies the first location in a region.
Item Data Description ID (Optional) Item ID to filter out all items except for the item you specify.
Fields to leave blank when ID is filled in:
Expression.
All other Item Data and Attribute Data fields, unless your logic specifically requires them.
Expression (Optional) One or more characters that define a sub-string expression.
Items with an Item ID that includes this sub-string are included in the range source list.
Fields to leave blank when Expression is filled in:
ID.
Type (Optional) Item Type ID of the items to include within the range source list.
Other item types are filtered out.
Example
Select the item type, ORDER.
Items that are PRODUCTION item types are filtered out.
Class (Optional) Class of items to include within the range source list. Attribute Data Description Name (Optional) Name of a standard or extended attribute. Items that have this attribute are included in the range source list.
Fields to leave blank when Name is filled in:
Name Expression.
Name Expression (Optional) One or more characters to define a sub-string expression. Items with a standard or extended attribute with a name that includes this sub-string are included in the range source list.
Fields to leave blank when Name Expression is filled in:
Name.
Value (Optional ) Attribute value. Items that have any standard or extended attribute set attached to this value are included in the range source list.
Fields to leave blank when Value is filled in:
Value Expression.
Value Expression (Optional) One or more characters that define a sub-string expression.
Items with a standard or extended attribute set attached to the value expression that includes this sub-string are included in the range source list.
Fields to leave blank when Value Expression is filled in:
Value.
Criteria Set Point ID (Optional) Text point.
Stores a dynamically changeable name for the Criteria Set.
Supercedes Criteria Set Name.
- Click OK.