In order to add an existing business information grid for a Manufacturing Process, Standard Item, Bill of Material link or Operation, proceed as follows:

• [In the menu toolbar]
  • If you want to define a Business Information Grid for a Manufacturing Process or Standard Item, select the step “Structure”
  • If you want to define a Business Information Grid for a Bill of Material link between a Manufacturing Process and its parent, or between a Standard Item and its parent, select the step “BOM Links”
  • If you want to define a Business Information Grid for an Operation, select the step “Routing”
• [In the “Explore Structure” explorer]
  • Select the Manufacturing Process, Standard Item or Operation to which you want to associate additional information by clicking on its description
  • A table appears shown a “Business Information Grid” entry
• [In the Filter Objects explorer]
  • Choose the workspace to which the Business Information Grid belongs
  • Choose the type “Business Information Grid”
  • Optionally, enter a name and/or description
• [In the menu toolbar]
  • Execute the search function.
• [In Filter Objects]
  • Drag & drop the found Business Information Grid to the “Business Information Grid” section in the step details.
  • The Business Information Grid now appears inside the “Business Information Grid” section
• [In the menu toolbar]
  • Execute the Save function.

In order to open a Business Information Grid, proceed as follows:

• [Via a working area containing the Business Information Grid you want to open]
  • Click directly on the Business Information Grid Name
• Choose ‘Open Business Information Grid’ in the popup
• You are automatically redirected to the ‘Business Information’ step. The working area contains the selected Business Information Grid information.

Alternatively, you can proceed as follows

• [Via ‘Business Information Grid’ step]
  • Retrieve the Business Information Grid you want to open in the explorer.
• Click on the Business Information Grid to open it
  • The working area now contains the selected BRC information

In order to edit a Business Information Grid, proceed as follows:

• Open the Business Information Grid of interest
• [In the table]
  • Create as many lines as necessary by using the “add line” function in the menu toolbar.
  • For each created line, provide a value for each column (none of the cells are required).
• [In the table]
  • Provide values for each line by using one of the following options:
    • Click in the column cell for a given line and enter the value “manually”.
    • or
    • Provide a “values BRC”. A “values BRC” will deactivate all manual cell updates for the given line and allows returning all column values for one or multiple lines.
  • If one or multiple lines of the Business Information Grid are subject to an existence rule, provide it by unticking the “exists” checkbox and assigning an existence BRC.
• [In the menu toolbar]
  • Execute the Save function.

When defining an “output alias” for a “values BRC” in a Business Information Grid, the CPE syntax will look as follows:

CPE.currentBIG[current].myWks/BPS/myBps.BP/myBp.value

or

CPE.rootMP.wks/MP/myMp.businessInformationGrid[current] .wks/BPS/myBps.BP/myBp.value

or

CPE.rootMP.wks/MP/myMp.wks/RTG/myRtg.operation[1]

.businnessInformationGrid[current].wks/BPS/myBps.BP/myBp.value

Defining BRCs

The “BRC Dictionary” step allows defining BRC to be used in:

• The “Structure” step, for the Manufacturing Process or Standard Item attributes
• The “BOM Links” step, for the attributes on the link between a Manufacturing Process or a Standard Item and its parent
• The “Routing” step, for the Routing and Operation attributes
• The “Codification” step
• The “Matching” step
• The “Business Information” step
  Reference: Please refer to the following chapter for more details: How to design a BRC