Job Management Partner 1/Asset Information Manager Planning and Setup Guide
This subsection describes how to define the items (objects) that constitute an Item window in Form Designer.
You can insert objects by selecting them from Form Designer's Object menu:
The following shows the Object menu.
Figure 10-11 Object menu
To delete an inserted object, select the object in the editing area, and then press the Delete key.
The following types of objects can be inserted:
This subsection describes how to define each type of object.
A text box inserts a character string in the window, such as the name of an item to be specified.
The following shows an example of a text box.
Figure 10-12 Example of a text box
From the Object menu, select Textbox. A text box is inserted in the editing area. Specify the desired character string in this text box.
For details about how to set the character style (such as color and font), see (2) Setting the style of an object.
You can insert an image in the window, such as a company logo or an eyecatcher.
The following shows an example of an image.
Figure 10-13 Example of an image
How to insert an image:
You can register a file to be set as a file attachment to the Item or a link to a specific website for referencing.
The following shows an example of a hyperlink.
Figure 10-14 Example of a hyperlink
From the Object menu, choosing Hyperlink inserts Hyperlink in the editing area. In the editing area, specify an applicable character string to the inserted Hyperlink. For details about how to set the character style (such as color and font), see (2) Setting the style of an object.
For details about how to set a URL as a hyperlink, see (3)(g) URL.
You can insert input fields to enable each worker to enter information in the Item window.
The following shows an example of a text field.
Figure 10-15 Example of a text field
From the Object menu, choosing Text field or Text area inserts a text field or text area in the editing area. If necessary, resize the object in the editing area.
Because values entered in text fields and text areas are registered in the asset management database, you must also set object attributes.
For details about the object attributes required when text fields and text areas are inserted and how to set the object attributes, see (3) Setting object attributes.
You can insert input fields to enable each worker to enter multiple Items in the Item window.
The following shows an example of a table.
Figure 10-16 Example of a table
You can insert an area from which a worker can select an item (drop-down list) in the Item window.
The following shows an example of a pulldown.
Figure 10-17 Example of a pulldown
From the Object menu, choosing Pulldown inserts a drop-down list in the editing area. If necessary, resize the drop-down list.
Because values selected from drop-down lists are registered in the asset management database, you must also set object attributes.
For details about the object attributes required when Pulldown is inserted and how to set the object attributes, see (3) Setting object attributes.
You can insert in the Item window buttons for executing or canceling processing.
The following shows an example of a button.
Figure 10-18 Example of a button
From the Object menu, choosing Button displays an area where you can choose a button. Choosing a desired button inserts it in the editing area.
The figure below shows the area for choosing a button.
Figure 10-19 Area for choosing a button
The five types of buttons that can be inserted in the Item window are those that are used for executing activities defined in Flow Designer and those that are used for common purposes: Complete, Save, Reject, New item, and Close. Note that the Complete button can be used only for the node immediately before the completed activity.
If a button used to execute an activity is to update data in the asset management database when the button is pressed, you must use Activity Designer to define the nature of the processing (activity) to be performed by pressing the button.
If a button is used simply to check the contents and send them to the next worker or for common purposes, there is no need to define an activity.
The following describes the types of buttons that can be inserted:
You can insert in an Item an object defined for another node. This feature is used so that the Item window for a subsequent node can inherit items defined with Flow Designer in the Item window for a preceding intermediate node on the Item route.
For example, suppose that an intermediate worker clicked the Browse button to specify a device and then sent it to the next worker. In order to enable the next worker to determine the received device, you must insert a Defined object.
Choosing Defined object from the Object menu and then choosing the management name of the object to be inserted inserts the selected object in the editing area. For the inserted object, you can set the style and attributes in the same manner as for other objects.
For each object inserted from the Object menu, you can set its style, such as a frame line, background color, and type font.
Selecting an object in the editing area displays a style attribute column that contains the styles available to the selected object.
The figure below shows the style attribute column.
Figure 10-20 Style attribute column
Clicking a desired style item displays the available colors or values. Choose an appropriate value, and set the style as required.
The following describes the types of styles that can be set and their values:
You can copy a set of style attributes specified for one object to another object. To use a uniform style for the items in the window, set the style, such as background color and font, for one object, copy the style attributes, and then paste them to the other objects. This saves time in setting the style for each item.
To copy and paste a style:
To set the display order of an object that has been inserted in the editing area:
You can define the attributes of each object, such as an appropriate data type, whether it is mandatory, and whether it is to be displayed in the window.
When you select an object in the editing area, the attributes available to the selected object are displayed in the object attribute column.
Clicking a desired attribute displays available values and a dialog box for entering a value.
In the case of a Table object, the Table Designer button is displayed. Click this button to open the definition window (Table Designer) for the selected Table object. For details about Table Designer, see 10.4.5 Defining a table (Table Designer). The table below provides a cross-reference of object types and object attributes that can be set.
Table 10-1 Cross-reference of object types and object attributes
Object type | Object attribute | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mn | Dt | Ml | Max | Min | Iv | Rr | C | URL | Rq | R-o | Nd | EI | Subject | |
Textbox | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
Image | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
Hyperlink | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | M | N | N | N | N | N |
Text field | M | M | M#1 | M#1 | M#1 | Y | Y#1 | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y#1 |
Text area | M | M | M | N | N | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
Table | M | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | N |
Pulldown | M | N | N | N | N | Y | N | M | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
Button | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y#2 | N |
When you define an item for entering a value (such as a text field) in the Item window, this attribute sets a management name for the entered value.
The management name set here is used to define the item; it is not the management item for another job menu. Therefore, you can set any name without having to know classes and properties.
To set a management name, select a text field, text area, or drop-down object in the editing area and, then click the Management name specification area. In the displayed dialog box, enter a management name, and then click the OK button.
For text fields and text areas, you can select an object and then directly enter a management name in the editing area.
Processing steps are defined in the Item window with Activity Designer on the basis of the management name specified here.
Data type sets the data type or item specification method for registration into the asset management database.
Data type can be set for Text field, Text area, and Pulldown object types.
The table below provides a cross-reference of data types and applicable object types.
Table 10-2 Cross-reference of data types and object types
Data type | Object type | ||
---|---|---|---|
Text field# | Text area | Pulldown | |
Arbitrary character string | Y | Y | N |
Alphabet | Y | Y | N |
Alphanumeric | Y | Y | N |
Group reference | Y | N | N |
Location reference | Y | N | N |
User reference | Y | N | N |
Code reference | N | N | Y |
File reference | Y | N | N |
Device reference | Y | N | N |
Browse Packages | Y | N | N |
Software name reference | Y | N | N |
Software reference | Y | N | N |
Numeric | Y | N | N |
Date (YYYYMMDD) | Y | N | N |
Date (YYYYMM) | Y | N | N |
Date (MMDD) | Y | N | N |
Time (HHMMSS) | Y | N | N |
Time (HHMM) | Y | N | N |
For text fields and text areas that are specified directly, set the permitted data type.
For text fields that specify a group, location, user, file, device, package, software name, or software asset, set the data type for specifying applicable information using the Browse button.
The following describes the data types that are specified using the Browse button:
Figure 10-21 Procedure for adding a device from the Reference Devices dialog box
Figure 10-22 Select Package dialog box
Figure 10-23 Browse Software dialog box
Figure 10-24 Reference Software dialog box
When a software asset is specified in the Item window, the character string Selected appears in the specification field. To check the specified information, click the Browse button. In the displayed Reference Software dialog box, click the link for the asset number to the right of the Search button. The Software Details dialog box appears where you can check the specified software asset.
To check the software asset specified by the previous worker in the Item window, click the Browse button to display the Software Details dialog box, from where you can confirm the specified software asset.
These object attributes specify the maximum length for an item that is expressed as a character string, and the maximum and minimum values for an item that is expressed as a numeric value.
A maximum of 1,024 bytes of characters is permitted for Maximum length. The value range permitted for Maximum and Minimum is -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647.
Initial value sets an initial value to be displayed in the Item window. The permitted initial value depends on the data type.
For data types Group reference, User reference, Date, and Time, you can set a user group name, user name, date, and time to their initial values when the Item is executed, according to the information displayed in the Item window.
For data type Code reference, you can set the initial value from selections. For other data types, you set a fixed character string.
For a text area, \n in a character string specified as an initial value is regarded as a linefeed.
Reference range selects either Reference the range of filtering or Reference all as the range of groups and users to be referenced.
If access is restricted by the organizational hierarchy, this attribute specifies whether the value is to be specifiable from within the restricted range (Reference the range of filtering) or from all organizational hierarchies (Reference all).
This attribute is applicable only to text fields whose data type is Group reference or User reference.
Code defines the selection items (contents of a drop-down list) that are displayed in a drop-down list in the Item window. Selection items in a drop-down list are selected by codes managed in the asset management database. For details about how to add code, see 4.8.1 Adding codes in the manual Administrator's Guide.
To define a selection item to be displayed in a drop-down list:
The figure below shows the Edit Code dialog box in which codes have been added.
Figure 10-25 Edit Code dialog box
URL sets the target of a hyperlink object.
Two types of targets are available:
Required sets an item whose specification in the Item window is mandatory.
To set a mandatory item, select the object, and then select its check box.
Read-only displays the applicable object as read-only in the Item window. Use this attribute when you wish to ensure that information entered by a previous worker will not be changed.
To set an object as read-only, select the object and then select its check box.
Non-display hides an object that is required as Item information but that you do not wish to display in an Item window. For example, suppose that the Item execution date is to be registered in the asset management database. If you insert a text field for entering the date, set the execution date as its initial value, and then hide the field. You can register the execution date and the worker can process the Item without having to know about it.
To hide an object, select the object, and then select its check box.
Execution item sets the Item to be displayed by the New item button. This attribute is applicable only to Items whose status is Exhibit.
If this setting is omitted, clicking the New item button displays the New Item Selection dialog box for selecting an Item to be executed. If the set Item is no longer exhibit, clicking this button also displays the New Item Selection dialog box.
Subject sets the item that is displayed as the subject of the Item in the Inbox, Outbox, and Execution Item Management windows. When multiple Items have the same name, the subject is useful for identifying each Item.
To set the subject, select the object and select the check box.
To display the subject of the Item in the Inbox, Outbox, and Execution Item Management windows:
Only the Item applicant can set the subject. If the subject is changed by any other user, the change is not applied to the subject in the Inbox, Outbox, or Execution Item Management window.
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