Assigning an Attribute to a Characteristic

An attribute is an additional user-defined property. You can assign result attributes to a characteristic to provide more information about the runtime result recorded for the characteristic to the users of the MES system. For information about attributes, see Attributes.

To assign result attributes to a characteristic

1. Select the characteristic.

2. Go to the Attributes tab.

3. Do one of the following:

   • Right-click in the tab and on the context menu click Add.

   • On the ribbon, go to the Current View tab and click Add.

   The Add attributes dialog box appears, listing the result attributes that have not been assigned to the characteristic.

   

4. Select the attributes to assign to the characteristic and click OK.

   The selected attributes are added to the Attributes tab. Their values are entered during runtime.

5. Save the changes.