The revision feature is used to keep track of the changes made to Smart Instrumentation reports and items, including calculations. It is important and useful to have a chronological description of the changes, dates of change, and a list of persons who approved them. Use this procedure to add, edit, and delete revisions.
Maintain Calculation Revisions
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Generate a report preview for the calculation (for details, see Generating Calculation Item Reports).
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In the Print Preview: Calculation Report window, on the print preview toolbar, select
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In the Revisions dialog, select one of the revision numbering methods (use P0, P1, P2... for preliminary revisions or 0, 1, 2 / A, B, C and so forth, for normal serial revisions).
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When you first select a revision numbering method, several options are available to you, including preliminary revisions (designated by P0, P1, P2…). After you select one of the other revision methods, you will not be able to return to the preliminary revision method and this option will be disabled.
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If you select any revision method besides Other, Smart Instrumentation successively numbers each new revision.
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Select New to add a new revision data or select Edit to update an existing revision data line.
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Add or edit the revision data in the appropriate data fields.
The By data field contains the current user's initials by default, if the System Administrator
has defined it as such.
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Under Drawing number, accept the default drawing number, or edit as required.
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To delete revisions, select the revision you want to delete, and the select Delete.
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Select OK.
You can also maintain revisions in batch mode using global revisions (for more information,
see Global Revisions).