| How do additional fields that are added to the FMEA catalog ItemType get displayed on the Unbounded form that is displayed when adding values to the FMEA item? An example that was brought up to me was adding a field to the catalog that contains a plant location or Business unit. To make QP a tool for global organizations, they need to define failures, effects, causes… on a product line, or equivalent, basis that they are able to search and filter on. There typically different modes for these passed on the product that the FMEA is being created for |
The FMEA Catalog items are fully customer configurable, as are all Innovator solutions. To add a property named plant, the first step is to edit the ItemType for the FMEA Catalog Item. Add the new property and save the ItemType. Open the Form for the FMEA Catalog item and expose the new field. Now the main grid and the forms for this library element are updated. To make this new column available for sorting and searching in the Bound or UnBound select dialogs, the admin needs to change the Form definition that builds the layout of that dialog. To find the Form name, open Administration -> Grids, and open the DFMEA Editor grid definition. Highlight the row for the property whose catalog was just changed, and then scroll to the right to see the link to the Source Form. This form contains the logic and definitions that create the UnBound or Bound selection dialog. To edit this definition requires some HTML and Javascript skills, but it is a supportable customer configuration change. |
