Harness Level Optimization Dialog Box and Field Reference

Define Giveaway:

Dialog Box

To access: In the Harness Level Optimization dialog box, select a harness in the Harness table and click the Define giveaway () button.

Use this dialog box to define optimized complexity by specifying giveaways for the harness and view the effects of those giveaways in terms of how many harness levels you have and the harness cost.

Objects

Field	Description
Full Complexity	The following data is displayed for the Full Complexity Harness Levels for the Harness: Levels Displays the number of harness levels for the full complexity. Cost Displays the annual cost for the full complexity harness levels based on the metric selected in the Metrics drop-down of the Harness Level Optimization Dialog Box. If the Levels field displays a large number preceded by < and the Cost field displays “Not available”, holding your mouse cursor over them displays the tooltip “Calculating Full Complexity would take too long”. This means that calculating Full Complexity is likely to take a significant amount of time and memory. The system, therefore, has not calculated it automatically. If you want to see these values, use the 'Generate Full Complexity' action in the Harness Level Optimization dialog box to force the calculation. Be aware that if the displayed number is very large, it is possible that the memory requirements for full complexity calculation may exceed the allocated memory.
Optimized Complexity	The following data is displayed for the Optimized Complexity of the Giveaway options selected in the Giveaway table: Levels Displays the number of harness levels for the current optimized complexity. If this figure is red, this figure is not up-to-date with the specified giveaway. Click Recalculate Optimized Complexity results () to update this figure and the Cost. Level Limit You specify the upper limit of harness levels that a harness can have. Any optimized complexity solutions above this level are considered unacceptable. If you have selected the AUTOMATIC method of defining giveaway, the system calculates the giveaway and optimized complexity within this limit. If the system cannot calculate an optimized complexity solution within this restriction, a warning triangle () displays next to this. Cost Displays the annual cost for the current optimized complexity based on the metric selected in the Metrics drop-down of the Harness Level Optimization Dialog Box. If this figure is red, this figure is not up-to-date with the specified giveaway. Click Recalculate Optimized Complexity results () to update this figure and the Levels. This enables you to compare the number of harness levels and cost for the full complexity harness against the number of levels and cost for the optimized complexity with the specified giveaway.
MANUAL AUTOMATIC	Specifies whether you want to: manually specify giveaway options and variants. have the system automatically calculate which options and variants to give away in order to have the optimal harness complexity within your specified restrictions (that is, “Level Limit” and “Don’t/Only when” giveaway restrictions on options).
Save optimized complexity matrix report resulting from last applied giveaway	Displays a “Select Optimized Complexity Report File” dialog box where you specify the directory in which you want to save an optimized complexity matrix for the harness levels (in an XLS file). See Optimized Complexity Matrix Report for a summary of the information contained in the tabs of the report. The dialog box also has the option: Retain on Design Retains the resulting matrix on the design as attached data. You can retrieve this data via a plugin.
Giveaway Table	The appearance of this table depends on whether you have selected the MANUAL or AUTOMATIC method of specifying Giveaway. Lists the options and variants () for the harness. When using the MANUAL method, select whether you want to give away each option and variant: Always Never Sometimes This column allows you to associate the giveaway of an option or variant with an option expression and thereby restrict the conditions under which it is given away (for example, in a particular market). Either enter the option expression manually or click the ellipsis (...) button to display the Edit Option Expression Dialog Box. When you click Recalculate Optimized Complexity results (), the Optimized Complexity data updates to display the effect of giving away the selected options and variants. When using the AUTOMATIC method, you can apply the following restrictions for each option and variant: Don’t Never give away this option or variant. Only when This column allows you to associate the giveaway of the option or variant with an option expression and thereby restrict the conditions under which it is given away (for example, in a particular market). Either enter the option expression manually or click the ellipsis (...) button to display the Edit Option Expression dialog box. When you click Recalculate Optimized Complexity results (), the system calculates which options and variants to give away in order to have the optimal harness complexity within your restrictions and displays the Levels and Cost for that solution. When you select an option or variant in the table, the connectors and signals associated with it display in the Connector table and Signals table. Note If you right-click the Don’t, Always or Never column, you can choose to Select All, Deselect All, Select All Options, or Deselect All Options.
Enter Filter String () Clear Filter String ()	In the field next to the Enter Filter String icon (), enter a series of characters. A filter is applied to the Giveaway table so that only options and variants with names containing that series of characters are listed. The behavior of the filter varies depending on such things as whether you use wildcards and the case (upper or lower) of the specified characters. See “Browser Tab and Dialog Box Filters” in the Capital Design Tools - Common Functions User Guide for further information. Click the Clear Filter String icon () to clear the filter and view all options and variants.
Connectors Table	Displays the connectors associated with the option or variant selected in the Giveaway table.
Signals Table	Displays the signals associated with the option or variant selected in the Giveaway table.

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Harness Level Optimization Dialog Box and Field Reference