Commodity Rules - Intergraph Smart Materials - Version 2020 (10.0) - Training - Hexagon

Intergraph Smart Materials Classic Lab Tutorials (2020)

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Commodity rules are used to simplify commodity code creation and to make sure that commodity codes of a particular commodity group and part are always created in the same way. These rules are defined on the S.10.01 Commodity Rules screen, found in the S.10 Commodity Groups and Parts branch under Smart Reference Data.

The first window shows the commodity rule name and descriptions in the first (Commodity Rules) block. On the Commodity Attributes tab, you must assign all tables/properties that are necessary to fully describe the component.

Use the list of values to select the needed tablenames. The Required check box indicates if the property is mandatory or optional for the labeling. With the Short and Long check boxes, you can control if the short description and/or description of the table detail is used to create the describing text of the component.

Click the Next Block button to open Window 2 of the screen, where you can define the commodity key. The commodity codes will be built based on this key definition. Each record of this key defines which digit of the commodity code will represent which property. The commodity code is created using the number of characters of the table detail as defined by this commodity key.

Use the list of values to select the tablenames. This list is restricted to the tablenames assigned to the rule in Window 1 plus the physical tables M_COMMODITY_GROUPS (basis of S.10.02 Commodity Groups) and M_PARTS (basis of S.10.03 Commodity Parts). The Ins Char field can be used to define default characters that will be used when no (optional) table detail was selected at commodity code creation.

Click the Next Block to open Window 3 of the screen, where you can define the commodity layouts. When the commodity code is created, the short description and description are built automatically by stringing together the table detail short description and description in the order of the commodity key definition. Separate short and long layouts are built based on the layout definition made on this Window 3 to give you more flexibility in creating the component descriptions. The layout definition allows you to use fix text strings, to place the property descriptions in any order, and to tabulate the text.

Use the list of values to select the needed text modules. The tablenames assigned to the rule on Window 1 are available, in addition to the attributes assigned to these tables and some values like the company code. These values are entered with concluding short or long identifying the short description or description, and enclosed with # characters. Key in the fixed text strings when needed. To create tabulated text, use the CTRL + TAB keys on the keyboard.