Exercise 31: Examining the Questionnaire
Run Configuration Questionnaire. Enter item number 01040 but leave the Customer field blank. Click OK. Choose New Configuration to create a configuration. Now you see the questionnaire. By answering the questions in the list, you are defining the characteristics of the product.
Note: The exact characteristics depend on the set of exercises you went through. If you skipped some of them, the questionnaire can look different to the one discussed here.
The questionnaire has the following characteristics:
• The current group (Master Group Maintenance) and the item for which the questionnaire is run are shown in the title bar of the screen. So is the customer when the questionnaire is launched from Sales Order Maintenance or Sales Quote Maintenance.
• Although the questionnaire is run for item 01040, it also shows the questions associated with the features of item 50020. The questions for lower level configurable items are always collected.
• The questions are ordered according to the feature sequence you specified. However, due to dependencies resulting from the rules you entered, the system can also change the question sequence.
• The questions appear on different tabs. The tabs correspond to the functional groups assigned to the features. Features that do not have an assigned functional group are displayed on the No Group tab.
• Place the cursor over the Question icon to display the rules that apply to a feature.
• Click the Customize icon next to the message bar in the Configure Item screen. You can customize the questionnaire settings to display temporary and background questions as well, and show questions in the long question format.
• The variable housing-area is a temporary variable. A temporary variable gets value from a rule. If there is no specific rule, the system uses the default value as the answer to the associated question. You can use this kind of variable to let the system calculate a value in the background that you want to have available when you are running the questionnaire. To display temporary variables on the questionnaire, select the Show Temporary Questions check box in the Customize window.