General :






  • By checking the option "Prohibit characters..."If you want to use the characters that are not allowed to be used, you can enter them.
  • "Settings file locations" by clicking on it is possible to specify common folders (network use, internal use) rather than using the default installed directories.
  • When the processing is finished and the project (or part of the project) has been duplicated, it is possible to delete this project in the selection window of the . This box is unchecked by default.
  • "Automatically apply new name rules when adding an assembly". If this box is checked, the renaming rules will be applied to the assemblies taken into account (see Rename the project). If this box is not checked, the names of assemblies added to the list will not be taken into account.
  • "Do not display identical components with the same parent assembly multiple times" If components are identical in the project they will be marked with the icon and the name will appear in grey in the tree.
  • "In case a file is already present in the destination of the duplication do not overwrite it" When a document is already present in the destination directory (for example after a duplication has already been made) it may not be necessary to duplicate this document again and overwrite it. If this is not the case you should uncheck this box.
  • "Do not consider broken components"   When loading assemblies in the project, if components are in the "Broken" state, by checking this option they will not be taken into account for processing.



Properties :





These options allow you to specify how the properties will be created and filled in the documents of the duplicated project.

By checking the option "Prohibit characters..."If you want to use the characters that are not allowed to be used, you can enter them.


When properties are created, it is possible to specify whether they are added :

  • On the document
  • On the document and the configurations when processing is carried out in the context of a PDM safe (use of data cards).


You can either use the date format set by the system, or you can choose the date format to be used according to the following syntax:


Characters

Description

d

Displays the day as a number without a leading zero (example 1). Use %d if this is the only character in the user-defined numeric format

dd

Displays the day as a number with a leading zero (example 01)

ddd

Displays the day as an abbreviation (e.g. Mon.)

dddd

Displays the day as an abbreviation (example Monday)

M

Displays the month as a number without a leading zero (e.g. January is 1). Use %M if it is the only character in the user-defined numeric format

MM

Displays the month as a number with a leading zero (e.g. January corresponds to 01)

MMM

Displays the month as an abbreviation (e.g. January corresponds to Jan.)

MMMM

Displays the month as a full month name (example January)

y

Displays the year in numeric format without leading zeros (e.g. 0-9). Use %Y if it is the only character in the user-defined numeric format

yy

Displays the year in a two-digit numeric format with a leading zero if applicable (e.g. January corresponds to 01)

yyy

Not available

yyyyy

Displays the year in a four-digit numeric format


Be case sensitive (upper/lower case) and indicate the separators of your choice.

Here are some examples of user-defined date formats for the Thursday, March 28, 2013.


Format

Poster

dd-MM-yy

28-03-13

dd/MM/yy

28/03/13

M/d/yy

03/28/13

d MMM yy

28 Mar. 13

d MMMM yyyyy

March 28, 2013


A balloon, containing some information related to the properties, can be displayed when the cursor moves over the documents in the project list.

In this example we ask to display three properties, here is the result:


 


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