Alert

The Alert dialog box appears when you select Create Alert and click on resulting Work Instruction item on the list for the operation. Alternatively, the Alert dialog box appears when you click on a Work Instruction item that already exists.

This dialog box contains controls for:

Related Topics
Authoring Work Instructions


Alert Text

Name
You can accept the default name provided or create your own. In most cases, alerts are one of two types: notices of change or warnings. You may wish to have the type appear in the name itself.

the name includes of the work instruction type (in this case, alert).

Instruction Text
You can use copy/paste during text entry. If you enter more text than is visible in the initial box, scroll bars appear. The text cannot include any kind of formatting tags or commands, such as those for italics or bold.

Note: You can resize this dialog box.

Alert Options

The Alert dialog contains the following options:

Show Once
If this option is selected, the alert appears once for a particular user in the downsteam MES, and then disappears. This option is typically selected for alerts of changes.
Show Always
If this option is selected, the alert appears everytime the operation appears in the downsteam MES. This option is typically selected for alerts of some kind danger to data, materials, or people.

By default, Show Once is selected.

Track Confirmation
Selecting this option means the downstream MES records workers confirmations that they have seen the alert.

By default, Track Confirmation is selected.

Note: The alert options are used by a MES; they do not affect V6 user interfaces.