View Wizard

The creation of new views can be easily performed using a wizard. This wizard offers guidance during the creation stage of views. Through the wizard, several steps are traversed in order to create a view from scratch, or modify an existing one.

The view wizard can be called from the designer screen. Open up the context menu under a Folder node, to create a new view at this location and choose "View Wizard". Alternatively, open the context menu under a view node and choose "View Wizard" to modify the view in question.

Starting the View Wizard

The View wizard appears.

Using the wizard, one of the following view types can be constructed:

• Flat views

  These views are intended for data overview and modification (data management). Flat views display data restricted to a single entity type. For example, it is possible for instance, to show all failure causes present under the scope of a full Model.

  Sample cases for a flat view type:

  • A list of subsystems

  • A list of parts

  • A list of failure causes

• Hierarchical views

  These views are intended for the input of data (data entry)

  Hierarchical views are the only view type that represent the relationship structure within the data. This structure is similar to the layout as displayed in the FMECA tree structure.

  Examples of an hierarchical view:

      Part A
            + Component B
                + failure cause1
                + failure cause2

• Vertical views

  These views are intended for data overview and modification (data management).

  Vertical views display data consisting of mixed entity types. Vertical views display the combined list of all objects, of the types included in the view under the scope in the current model.

  Examples of vertical views:

  • A list of assets (subsystem, part)

  • A list of maintenance actions (FBM, UBM, CBM, CBM-Maintenance)

• Horizontal views

  These views are intended for data overview and modification (data management).

  Horizontal views display the data in a combined view, with several object levels on a single row. For instance, a list may contain all maintenance action. Within this list, in front of each maintenance action the parent failure cause is listed, along with the parent component, part, etc. following the hierarchical structure.

  Examples of an horizontal view:

       subsystem A - Part  A - Component B - Failure Cause 1 - FBM 1

       subsystem A - Part  A - Component B - Failure Cause  2 - FBM 2