Revision Number Definition

Name

Input a valid short name for the element in the text box, special characters are not allowed.

Input a valid name for the REVNOD element in the text box, special characters are not allowed.

Description

Input a brief description of the element (can contain up to 120 characters of text).

Input a brief description of the REVNOD element (can contain up to 120 characters of text).

Type

Displays the element type.

Lock

Select True from the drop-down menu to lock the element attributes.

Select False from the drop-down menu to unlock the element attributes.

Owner

Display the owning element in the dictionary hierarchy.

Misc

Displaying

Display Name

Input a name for the revision number

Working revision text

Input text or a symbol.

Number of parts

Select the number of parts to the revision (for example: A1 is 2 parts).

Increments at:

Define the

Part

Select the number part to be formatted.

Part name

Input a name for the part (for example: Major).

Value type

Select Numeric, Alphabetic or Custom (dependent upon the selection determines what format is displayed in the Values and Formatting parts of the Revision Number Definition window).

Value type field

Displays how the numbering is represented as numeric, alphabetic or custom format.

Numeric (default)

The revision is represented as a numeric numbering.

Alphabetic

The revision is represented as a alphabetic numbering.

Custom

The revision is represented as custom definition of numbering.

Custom values

Select Set to display the Custom Values Editor window:

Use the Custom Values Editor window to enter the values for the custom definition.

Reset to blank

Select the check box to reset the part to a blank value when a higher order part is incremented.

Start from zero

Select the check box to start from zero on issue.

Clear lower parts on issue

Select the check box to clear lower parts on issue.

Lower case

Select the check box to specify lower case characters for Alphabetic numbering.

Exclude

Select the check box to include ‘I’ and ‘O’ characters within Alphabetic numbering.

Formatting

Separator

Select from the drop-down list to define the symbol used as a separator between numbering values.

Prefix

Input a value in the field to define a prefix for the revision number.

Fixed length

Select the check box to define a fixed length for each number value.

By default, If the number string is not long enough, 0 is added to Numeric values and A is added to Alphabetic values.

For example, if a Numeric string is 23 and the fixed length value is 5. Multiple 0s are added to display 00023.

Length of part

Input a value in the field to define the number of characters used for a fixed length.

Test

Click Test to display the Test Revision Number window.

The Test Revision Number window clearly displays the numbering system defined for the revision number.

Click OK to close the Test Revision Number window. The user is returned to the Revision Number Definition window.