Populating a reusable component repository in a CSDB (Arbortext only)
You can populate a reusable component repository in the CSDB with warnings, cautions, support equipment, supplies, and spares. In multi-language CSDBs, you can add only source-language components to the repository. Once in the reusable component repository, these components can be inserted directly into a DM using Arbortext Editor. Issue 4.1 or later CIR warnings and cautions are stored in a CIR DM rather than in the reusable component repository (CSDB).
Before you begin
- You must have the appropriate permissions to edit DMs on your Contenta S1000D desktop.
- To control who may populate the repository with reusable components, you should use the pcmadmin utility to remove the Modify S1000D Reusable Data system tool from the BASE_TOOLS toolbox, and make it available to only designated users' toolboxes. See the Contenta Administrator User documentation for more information on Contenta toolboxes.
About this task
This procedure describes how to add warnings, cautions, support equipment, supplies, and spares to a reusable component repository in the CSDB.
- You add Issue 2.3, 3.0, and 4.0 warnings and cautions to the reusable component repository, and you add Issue 4.1 or later warnings and cautions to a CIR DM (not to the reusable component repository).
- You add Issue 2.3, 3.0, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, and 5.0 support equipment, supplies, and spares to the reusable component repository.
- In a multi-language CSDB, only reusable components in the source language can be added.
The following are the fields in the Add Reusable Component to Repository panel.
- Component ID—Displays the ID of the warning, caution, support equipment, supply, or spare.
- Component Type—Can be warning, caution, support_equipment, supply, or spare.
- Component Title
- For warnings and cautions only—this field is initially populated with the text of the selected warning or caution, or the first 150 characters of text if the warning or caution text is longer than that.
- For support equipment—Issues 2.3.and 3.0 use the
<supequi>element with the title derived from the<nomen>element, and Issues 4.0 and higher use the<supportEquipDescr>element with the title derived from the<name>or<shortName>elements. - For supplies—Issues 2.3.and 3.0 use the
<supply>element with the title derived from the<nomen>element, and Issues 4.0 and higher use the<supplyDescr>element with the title derived from the<name>or<shortName>element. - For spares—Issues 2.3.and 3.0 use the
<spare>element with the title derived from the<nomen>element, and Issues 4.0 and higher use the<spareDescr>element with the title derived from the<name>or<shortName>elements.
- S1000D Issue—Displays the issue number.
- Model Identifier—Initially displays the model identification code of the DM being edited. You can modify this field.
- System Difference Code—Initially displays the SDC of the DM being edited. You can modify this field.
- Source DM—Displays the Data Module Code (DMC) of the DM being edited.
- Contenta Configuration IDs—Displays the BLOB ID of the configuration containing the source DM. You can modify this field to specify a different ID, or to specify additional IDs, which you should separate with a space.