Define the mapping between the properties of PMI balloons and Quality Characteristics

When a quality engineer imports the product and manufacturing information (PMI) balloons from a part into the Inspection Definitions of a Control Plan, Quality Characteristics are generated from the source balloons and are added to the generated Inspection Definitions. You can define the mapping between the properties of PMI balloons and Quality Characteristics in the ACP_IPXMLKEY_TCQPROPS_MAPPING preference. If you have custom balloon properties, you can define their mapping into a Quality Characteristic property in this preference.

Note

To define the mapping for Single Limit Tolerance, add the following:

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<Property name of the Single Limit Tolerance in the IPXML file>:qc0SingleLimit

While importing PMI, in some cases, the Quality Characteristics already exist in the Quality Master Data. In such cases, Control and Inspection Planning does not create new Quality Characteristics, but uses the existing Quality Characteristics, and attaches them to the generated Inspection Definitions. To find out if the Quality Characteristics already exist in the Quality Master Data, Control and Inspection Planning performs a search by using Quality Characteristic properties as the search criteria. You can define which properties are used as the search criteria by adding the internal names of the properties in the following preferences:

• ACP_Qc0VariableCharSpec_FINDPROPS: Used for searching Variable Quality Characteristics

• ACP_Qc0AttributiveCharSpec_FINDPROPS: Used for searching Attributive Quality Characteristics

Note

String, Double, Boolean, Integer, and Reference properties are supported as search criteria. Relation properties are not supported in the search criteria.

Procedure

1. If you have added custom List of Values (LOV) properties to the Quality Characteristic, and you want to import the balloon property into the custom LOV property, you must create preferences to define the mapping between the custom LOV property and the balloon property. If the mapping is not done, then the correct value from the balloon will not be assigned to the custom LOV property in the Quality Characteristic, and the default value will be assigned. You must create preferences for each of the balloon properties that you want to import into the custom LOV properties in the following format:ACP_**_VALUES In this preference, you must specify the Display Value or IPXML Key Value and internal name of LOV separated by a colon in this format: IPXML Key Value or LOV Display Value:internal LOV value

For the ACP_qc0Criticality_VALUES preference, specify the values as: CopyMINOR:indicatorFMEAMinorSeverity MAIN:indicatorFMEAMajorSeverity CRITICAL:indicatorCriticalCharacteristic

2. You must also create a preference to define the default value that is assigned to the custom LOV property in the following format:ACP_**_DEFAULT

3. In this preference, you must specify the default value of the Display Value or IPXML Key Value and internal name of LOV separated by a colon in this format: IPXML Key Value or LOV Display Value:internal LOV value

Example For the ACP_qc0Criticality_VALUES preference, specify the values as: CopyindicatorFMEAMinorSeverity