Change Impact Reports Wizard Dialog Box

To access: Open the required project and click the Reports > Change Impact Reports action on the Workflow ribbon.

Used to generate a change impact report based on all (or a selection) of the designs in a parent design, or all designs from a build list.

Description

Figure 502: Design Selection

Figure 503: Report Configuration

Figure 504: Export Selection

Objects

Object	Description
Design Selection Page
Before / After Tab	Each tab contains the fields as below. Select the required designs from before and after the change.
Build List	Select to enable the dropdown list. Click to select the Harness build list to report on.
Composite Design	Select to enable the ellipsis button. Click to open the Composite Design Selection dialog box to choose the required parent design.
Selection Panel	Only enabled when a composite design is selected. Displays all child designs of the selected composite. Use the Add / Remove controls to select the child designs to report on.
Enter Filter String () / Clear Filter String ()/ Wildcards	Type a series of characters to display only child designs with names containing those characters in the Available or Selected lists. The behavior of the filter varies depending on whether you use wildcards and the case (upper or lower) of the specified characters. See also “Browser Tab and Dialog Box Filters” in the Capital Design Tools - Common Functions User Guide. If you click Add All or Remove All, only the displayed designs are added or removed from the lists. If you apply a filter to the Selected list, the Next button is dimmed. Click the Clear Filter String icon (), to clear the filter and view all the available child designs in the design, or all the selected derivatives to process. Optional.
Report Configuration page	Displays a check box list of available reports and columns to include in each report. Dimmed items are mandatory. Click the report name check box to toggle the column selections between all, none, or mandatory only. The check box settings are remembered next time you open the dialog box. Any plugin consolidated reports you have created display here.
Export Selection page	Specify a folder location to save the exported report. A link to the target folder is displayed on the Consolidated Reports tab in the Output Window when the reports are created.

Usage Notes

Design Selection Validation

The report identifies the impact of changes made to revisions of the same design. To help you make meaningful design comparisons, the system automatically checks for possible inconsistencies between your Before and After selections. A message box and information in the Output Window provide details in such cases.

The validation identifies the following inconsistencies:

• A design in the Before tab does not have “corresponding” selection in the After tab (the converse is also checked). A “corresponding” design is one that has the same Part Number but a different Revision.

• The same design is selected in both the Before and After tabs.

The validation is triggered when you click Next on the Design Selection page.

In some situations, you may want to ignore any inconsistencies that are identified. For example, you have a build list with all the harnesses of one vehicle.You may want to make a copy of the build list (in Capital Project Manager), remove a particular harness, and create the report using the two build lists, to see the impact to your overall material consumption. In this scenario, validation would identify the “missing” harness but you could click “Continue” to ignore the inconsistency and generate the report.

Parent Topic:

Design and Diagram Dialogs

Capital Harness Designer User Guide, 2512

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