New and Changed Features
Enhancement for Integration with EMT
Previously, when you placed EMT orders for configurable items, there was a limitation that both the PBU and the SBU were required to be in the same domain.
In Configurator 5.7, integration with EMT has been enhanced. You can now place EMT orders, even when the PBU and SBU are in different domains in the same database or in different databases.
To enable variant item numbers to be unique across domains, the following element options are newly added in Variant Item Number Rule Maintenance:
• Global Alphanumeric Sequence
• Global Numeric Sequence
Model Management Enhancements
Model Publish
In addition to sales configuration details, you can now use Model Publish to publish product configuration details and routing configuration details across domains. New columns Product Configuration, Sales Configuration, and Remarks were added to the setting frame.
During the model publishing process, associated Rule Table Accelerator data is now also published into valid target domains.
In Configurable Item Maintenance, options were added for the system to determine when the target domains can pass the data validation during model publishing.
Model Import/Export
When you use Model Import/Export to export models, model publishing settings for the selected master groups are now included in the generated data package file.
When you import models, if you select the new field Publish Models, the system automatically publishes models from the specified source domains to valid target domains. In this way, you can avoid manually running Model Publish after you import the data package.
Master Group Copy Enhancement
When you use Master Group Copy to copy a master group, the system now also copies the model publishing settings associated with the master group.
Configurator Questionnaire UI Enhancements
A View Available Inventory blue icon has been added to the UI of the Configurator Questionnaire. You can click this icon to open a browse to view and search available inventory records for the variant item. This icon is only displayed on the variant items that have stock on hand or that have stock on order.
In Configurator Control, the field Show Warning Icons when Questionnaire Opens is newly added. Using this field, you can specify whether to display the yellow warning icons on functional group tabs in Configuration Questionnaire in the following situations:
• When the questionnaire respondent opens the configuration questionnaire
• When the questionnaire respondent saves the configuration without answering all questions
SO/SQ Number Enabled as System Variable
sysSOQNumber is now exposed as a system variable. You can use it in product configuration rules. When used in product configuration rules, the variable contains the sales order number or the sales quote number.
Cost Roll-Up Routine Enhancement
The cost roll-up functionality was previously automated in the system. Codes have been adjusted to expose the cost roll-up routine pccsru.i. You can now manually call the cost roll-up routine from within pccop.i when needed.
To call cost roll-up from a function, write the following procedure in pccop.i:
define variable vcResult as character no-undo.
define variable vlResult as logical no-undo.
function callCostRollUp returns logical
(input pcConfigID as character, /* Configuration ID */
input pcGroup as character, /* Group */
input pcGPart as character, /* Configurable Item Number */
input pcVPart as character, /* Variant Item Number */
input pcCostSet as character): /* Cost Set */
run proc-pccsru (input pcConfigID,
input pcGroup,
input pcGPart,
input pcVPart,
input pcCostSet,
input yes,
input yes,
input yes,
output vlResult,
output vcResult).
return vlResult.
end function.
procedure proc-pccsru :
{pccsru.i}
end procedure.
Performance Enhancement
The performance of the configuration rebuilding process has been improved.