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Configurator · Options
The answers. An option with an item puts a part in the product; one without is a characteristic that changes price and paperwork.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Master Data
- Section: Product Configurator
- Screen: Configurator · Options
Address in the console: /scm/config-options
List · 15 columns · 27 fields on its form · 4 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Code | model_no |
| Question | Text | class_name |
| Code | Code | code |
| Value | Code | value_code |
| Option | Text | name |
| Item | Code | item_no |
| Material | Text | item_name |
| Price change | Amount | price_delta |
| Lead days | Number | lead_time_delta_days |
| Default | Yes or no | is_default |
| Standard | Yes or no | is_mandatory |
| Forces ETO | Yes or no | forces_engineering |
| Takes a value | Status | value_kind |
| In force from | Date | effective_from |
| Until | Date | effective_to |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Model required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Question required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | Choose the model first; only its questions are offered. |
| Code required | Text | ||
| Option required | Text | ||
| Value a rule compares | Text | What a rule reads for this answer — B for Bimetal, 6 for 6". Leave empty and the code is used. Lets two questions both have an answer “B” while their codes differ (GAUGE_TYPE-B, STEM_LOCATION-B). | |
| Description | Text | ||
| Item it adds | Choice | Looked up from existing records | Leave empty for a characteristic that adds no part. |
| Quantity | Number | ||
| Price change | Number | ||
| Cost change | Number | ||
| Lead time change (days) | Number | ||
| Weight change (kg) | Number | ||
| Chosen by default | Yes or no | ||
| Fitted as standard, cannot be removed | Yes or no | ||
| Turns the whole order into engineer-to-order | Yes or no | One special bracket is all it takes, and the order screen has to know. | |
| The answer is a value the person enters | Choice | number, text | "To be specified": the option is chosen, and then the length, size or wording itself is typed in. Leave blank for an ordinary option. |
| What to ask for | Text | e.g. Stem length | |
| Unit of the value | Text | e.g. mm | |
| Smallest allowed | Number | ||
| Largest allowed | Number | ||
| Decimal places allowed | Number | For a number: 2 accepts 125.25 and refuses 125.255. Leave empty for any. | |
| Most characters allowed | Number | For text, e.g. 10 for a material such as INC625 or a thread such as M33x4(M). | |
| The value is the quantity of the item it adds | Yes or no | 250 mm of stem becomes 250 of the pipe this option adds (times its own quantity) — priced, costed and put in the BOM. | |
| Order | Number | ||
| Active | Yes or no | ||
| In force from | Date | The date this version of the row takes effect. Leave it as today unless you are dating a change ahead. | |
| Until | Date | Leave empty for open-ended. Setting it ends this version rather than deleting it. |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.
Beside it in Product Configurator
WorkspaceConfigure a ProductOpenRecordsConfigurator · ModelsOpenRecordsConfigurator · QuestionsOpenRecordsConfigurator · RulesOpenWorkspaceConfigurator · WorkbookOpenViewConfigurationsOpenRecordsConfigurator · ParametersOpenRecordsConfigurator · Sub-assembly InheritanceOpenViewConfigured · ComponentsOpenViewConfigured · RoutingOpenViewConfigured · InspectionsOpenViewConfigured · Cost SheetOpenViewConfigured · WhyOpen