Introduction
When creating a Library, the Librarian can create Classification Attributes to define the ontology associated with the taxonomy.
The Classification Attributes are created in ‘IP Classification’ application.The classification attributes can be associated with one or more classes in one or more libraries.
Then, any item placed in the Library class, acquires from that class the set of attributes that define the class.
For example, if there is a class node called ‘Valves’ which has attributes ‘Valve Material ’ and ‘Valve Pressure’, then any item that is inserted into the ‘Valves’ class "becomes" a valve and therefore acquires the attributes of ‘Valves’, which are ‘Valve Material ’ and ‘Valve Pressure’.
So, for example, when Engineering Item gets put into ‘Valves’ class, that particular Engineering Item acquires the attributes ‘Valve Material ’ and ‘Valve Pressure’, and then you can see and edit these attributes values for that particular Engineering Item in properties panel.
This concept of classification is very useful. Admin does not need to define a different type of item with different set of attributes. When an item is added to the class, it inherits its attributes. In case more attributes are needed to define the item, you can easily add the item to another class, so the inherits mechanism allows you to extend the attributes on an item just by putting it into the appropriate classes.
How to search for classified items based on classification attributes
Now, once the items are classified and the classification attributes values are defined. Other users can search for these items to maximize reuse.
To search for classified items based on classification attributes, we will use the ‘Search within’ capability exist in the toolbar of ‘IP Classify & Reuse’ application.
Query syntax:
CLASSIFICATION_ATTRIBUTE_NAME QUERY_OPERATOR “VALUE_TO_QUERY UNIT”
| String | Valve material = "Carbon Steel" | Double quotes is needed in case the ‘Value-to-query’ contains space |
| Valve material = *Steel | Asterisk & question mark are supported | |
| Valve material = Bronze | ||
| Boolean | Qualitycheck = TRUE QualityCheck = FALSE | |
| Numeric | Length = “110 mm” | When using units, you can enter the units along with the values enclosed in double quotes. Different unit of measures are supported. The system automatically converts entered search criteria values to the unit of measure stored in the database. |
| Length >= “11.0 cm” | ||
| General | Min Temp >= "-30 Cdeg" AND Max temp < "200 Cdeg" | AND & OR logical expressions are supported |
Attributes are available for searching only if the attributes were indexed by admin in ‘Collaboration Spaces Control Center’ app.
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