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Customizing navigation in process and procedure DMs

By default, when a user performs an "undo" action in a PDM (such as clicking the Previous Step button, a warning dialog is displayed. In addition, the user must step through all Warnings or Cautions, Preliminary Required Conditions, Safety Conditions, and Closing Conditions when navigating through a procedure or process DM using the Next and Previous buttons, and must click each step of a PDM procedure before moving to the next PDM node. To disable any of this functionality, edit property attributes in the components.xml file.

Procedure

  1. Open the components.xml for editing file in a text editor.
  2. To disable the "undo" warning dialog displayed when a user clicks the Previous Step button from within a PDM procedure, do the following.
    1. Locate the following line in the file.
       <prop id="require_pdm_undo_confirm">1</prop>
    2. Set the value of this property to 0.
  3. To disable the requirement that a user click through all the steps in a procedure in a PDM before moving to the next PDM node, do the following.
    1. Locate the following line in the file.
       <prop id="require_pdm_proc_stepping">1</prop>
    2. Set the value of this property to 0.
  4. To disable the requirement that a user click through all common information (such as Warnings or Cautions, Preliminary Required Conditions, Safety Conditions, and Closing Conditions) in a procedure DM, do the following.
    1. Locate the following line in the file.
       <prop id="show_proanchor_points">1</prop>
    2. Set the value of this property to 0.
  5. To disable the requirement that a user click through all Warnings and Cautions within procedure steps in a PDM, do the following.
    1. Locate the following line in the file.
       <prop id="show_stepanchor_points">1</prop>
    2. Set the value of this property to 0.
  6. Save and close the components.xml file.