How to use Target Maintenance

Summary

Target Maintenance is a powerful portlet designed to streamline the management and maintenance of spreadsheets with enhanced speed and efficiency. It offers robust support for customization within any MES application. With features like pagination, filtering, and easy data handling, Target Maintenance simplifies operations involving large datasets and custom data creation.

 

Benefits

• Efficient Spreadsheet Management: Accelerates spreadsheet handling tasks.
• MES Application Customization: Assists with application-specific customizations.
• Flexible Data Handling: Allows creation of data and specification of data types.
• Pagination Support: Opens targets with thousands of lines using configurable pagination.
• Comprehensive Target Management: Enables users to add, filter, rename, and delete targets, among other operations.

 

Manage and Maintain spreadsheets faster and more efficiently	Help with any MES Application customization	Create data and define the data type

 

 

Accessing the Target Maintenance Portlet

 

Sign in: Log in to the 42Q Portal.

Navigate: From the left-hand menu, expand Shop Floor Control > Configuration >Target Maintenance

Select: Click on Target Maintenance.

 

 

Using Target Maintenance

Filter a Target

Enter the Target Name in the search field.

Click Filter to display matching results.

To clear the search, select Clear and re-enter new criteria.

  Figure 1: Filter Targets

 

 

 

 

 

How to add a Target

To add a target, select the Add icon located next to the Target List tab, the Target Form pop-up window will display, then enter the Target Name (it is not allowed the “/” character); if there is a target to import, select it from the local path when the user selects the checkbox Save Imported Data Right Away (selected by default), the imported target will be exactly as it is (with lines and columns filled); when left unselected, the target will be imported with only the columns and so no values are filled, finally, select Save to complete.

 

Figure 3: Add Targets

 

 

 

How to manage Targets

Users can manage targets by double-clicking the target name in the Target List, this will display the Target Maintenance Page.

 

Figure 4: Target Maintenance Page

 

TARGET MENU OPTIONS

ACTION	FUNCTIONALITY
Create column	Creates a column.
Create line	Creates a line that will be inserted at the end of the table.
Delete line	Deletes a selected line.
Copy line	Copies a selected line.
Reset table	Clears any update performed and restores the original table values.
Delete table	Deletes a table.
Save table	Saves any changes made in the target.
Export table	Downloads a table as a .CSV file that will be saved locally by the user.
Import table	Uploads a selected target.

Note: To save any table update, the user needs to select Save in the Manage Tab section.

 

 

How to delete a column

To delete a column, simply roll the cursor over the column name and select Delete Column from the drop-down menu, then select Save in the Manage Tab section to complete.

Note: If the table is at Verification In Progress, just the 2nd user entries will be deleted.

 

How to edit a column

To edit a column, roll the cursor over the appropriate column name and select Edit Name Column from the drop-down menu.

 

Figure 6: Edit Column

 

The Edit Column Form will display. Edit the necessary fields and select Update to complete.

 

Figure 7: Edit Column Form

 

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