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Example Options

This section uses example options to consider how you view them in Capital Systems Integrator, how they relate to each other, and how they relate to other composite data elements.

You can view the options in a project by pressing Space Bar and entering Options; the Options Dialog Box displays.

See Option for a definition of an option.

The following are the default options from the Automotive Generative project.

Figure 126: Example Options

The top-level Options folder contains options grouped into Option Folders.

In the option folder called Variants, you can see two Variant Options Market-LHD (Left Hand Drive Market) and Market-RHD (Right Hand Drive Market) that are grouped together and are mutually-exclusive. Figure 127 shows that Market-RHD is now in the Exclusive window for Market-LHD:

Figure 127: Example Variant Options

The Audio folder contains the options related to the audio system in the vehicle.

Figure 128: Audio Folder

Some of these have exclusive relationships, such as A-CD (Single Disk Player) and A-CDC (CD Changer). This is because you could not have both the Single Disk Player and the CD Changer.

Some have inclusive relationships, such as A-4SPKR (4 Speaker - Premium Audio System) and A-2SPKR (2 Speaker - Base Audio System). This is because the 4 Speaker - Premium Audio System requires the wiring for the 2 Speaker - Base Audio System to be included.

Note that the A-TAPE (Tape Player) option is obsolete.

Figure 129: Obsolete A-TAPE Option

The Other folder contains options that relate to other features of the vehicle such as door locks and fog lamps. Note that the options in this folder are not set as Mutually Exclusive and they are not marked as Mandatory.

Figure 130: Other Folder

If Mutually Exclusive was selected, none of the options in the folder could be selected together in a vehicle.

If Mandatory was selected, at least one of the options within this folder would have to be included in any vehicle.

The Combinations folder contains one Option Combination called AUDIO. An option combination is used to define the complex relationships between a group of options (that is, the possible combinations of those options that you can include in a vehicle). In this case, all of the options involved come from the Audio option folder.

The possible combinations display as a list of valid selections. Click the AUDIO option combination to view the valid selections that are named AUDIOPHILE, PREMIUM and BASE.

Figure 131: Valid Selections for AUDIO Option Combination

You can see that the AUDIOPHILE valid selection contains everything apart from A-CD (Single Disk Player) because A-CD and A-CDC are mutually exclusive.

The BASE valid selection contains only the A-2SPKR (2 Speaker - Base Audio System) and A-CD options.

When the system generates Harness Level later, it can create only harness levels that adhere to these three valid selections. No other combinations of these options are required.

For the next composite data example, see Example Vehicle Models.

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