OEE Material Manager - Vision

OEE Material Manager Vision Component

The OEE Material Manager component allows users to modify and configure materials used for OEE. Materials are organized in Material Classes. Theis the folder that holds all the Material Classes with Material Definitions used in OEE. Expand the Material Classes to see the Material Definitions. This component can also be used to add, edit, delete, copy, paste, import and export a Material Definition or the Material Class.

Exporting Material Definitions and Material Classes to XML

If you click on Export, save window will appear to set your export location. Select the file type as xml to get the following xml file.

Material List Export

# This example will return a path to a different image to replace the default delete image:
if iconName == 'remove':
	return 'Builtin/icons/24/delete2.png'

Adding a New Material Definition

First select the material class Finished Goods and then New Material Definition. The following editor appears.

Give it a name (In this example, the Name is set to Whole Wheat Flour) and modify the settings. Click Save.

Material Classes can be added to an existing Material Class or to the Material Root. 

Characters Not Allowed in Names

These characters are restricted because they are used internally by the system or may cause errors when saving or executing MES objects.

Character that are not allowed (with possible exceptions):

. — Period
Used in object paths or property access.

? — Question mark
Used as a wildcard in searches.

! — Exclamation mark
Used in logical expressions.

# — Hash
Used for identifiers or system references.

% — Percent
Used in expressions or formatting.

^ — Caret
Used in calculations or expressions.

* — Asterisk
Used as a wildcard.

~ — Tilde
Used as a modifier or shortcut symbol.

[ ] — Square brackets
Used for indexing or arrays.

{ } — Curly braces
Used for code blocks or objects.

+ — Plus
Used in arithmetic or concatenation.

= — Equals
Used for assignments.

` — Backtick
Used for scripting or special syntax.

\ — Backslash
Used as an escape character or path separator.

@ — At symbol
Used in system references or annotations.

& — Ampersand
Used in logical operations.

( ) — Parentheses
Used to group expressions.

< > — Angle brackets
Used in comparisons or markup.

, — Comma
Used as a delimiter in lists or parameters.

Component Properties

Properties are provided that can be set to affect the operation and look of the component. They can be set through the Property Editor in the Designer or through scripting.

Example

event.source.parent.getComponent('OEE Material Manager').materialNameFilter = '*Flour'

Data

Appearance

Event Handlers

Event handlers provide the ability to add custom script when a user interacts with a component.

propertyChange

Extension Functions

filterMaterials

# This example will return a path to a different image to replace the default delete image:
if iconName == 'remove':
	return 'Builtin/icons/24/delete2.png'

loadIcon

# This example will return a path to a different image to replace the default delete image:
if iconName == 'remove':
	return 'Builtin/icons/24/delete2.png'

Custom Methods

Custom methods allow you to add your own component functions to a component that can be called through scripting. This is a useful and clean method of re-using script that is specific to the component (say you want to update a visual aspect of the component in the same way whether a user clicks on the component or a window property value changes). See Component Custom Methods in the Ignition Help Manual for more information.

Customizers

Custom Properties

The custom properties can be used to add user defined properties.

Component Functions

This component does not have functions associated with it.