RELEASE DOCUMENTS

Use this screen to enter and maintain documents and to link documents to the parts to which they refer. Documents typically include drawings, parts lists, work instructions, test procedures, source control documents, and other documents that are used to engineer, manufacture and procure products. You can access this screen, as well as the Maintain Documents, Document Media, Document Sizes, Document Types, and Document Maintenance Groups screens, in Costpoint Bills of Material.

You can add, maintain, clone, and delete a document in both the Maintain Documents and Release Documents screens, but if you selected the Use Separate Document Release Function checkbox in the BOM Settings screen in Costpoint Bills of Material, you must use the Release Documents screen to change document status, and make changes or delete a document that has been released or made obsolete (document status is "R" or "O").

Use this screen to create and release documents.

Document ID

Enter the document ID. You can enter up to 30 alphanumeric characters in this required field.

Rev

Enter the document revision. You can enter up to three alphanumeric characters in this optional field.

Type

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the code for the type of document being created. This required field of up to six alphanumeric characters must be a valid document type from the Document Types screen. Once you have assigned a document type and saved the record, this field cannot be changed. If the Document Defaults group box is populated in the Document Types screen for the document type code, those settings will default for the Document ID, but can be changed.  These default settings can include document media, size, maintenance group, location and the printouts in which the document should appear (as referenced in the Parts subtask).

Name

Enter the name of the document. You can enter up to 30 alphanumeric characters in this required field.

Status

Enter, or use the drop-down box to select, the status of the document being created. The valid system-defined selections are "U-Unreleased," "R-Released," or "O-Obsolete." You can edit this field only when the Use Separate Document Release Function checkbox in the BOM Settings screen is not selected.  However, if this checkbox is selected in the BOM Settings screen, the Status field is disabled for existing document records, and defaults as either "U-Unreleased" or "R-Released" for new document records based on the selection in the Default Initial Document Status group box in the BOM Settings screen.

Size

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the document size. This optional field of up to two alphanumeric characters must be a valid size code from the Document Sizes screen.

Media

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the media on which the document is stored. This optional field of up to two alphanumeric characters must be a valid media code from the Document Media screen.

CAGE

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the CAGE code to which the document is assigned. You can enter up to six alphanumeric characters in this optional field.

Sheets

Enter the number of sheets the document uses. You can enter up to four digits in this optional field.

Tabulated Drawing

Select this checkbox to tabulate the drawing.

Organization

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the organization to which this document belongs. This field can have up to 20 alphanumeric characters and must be a valid organization from the Maintain Org Elements screen in Costpoint General Ledger.

Org Abbrev

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the abbreviation of the organization to which this document belongs. This field can have up to six alphanumeric characters and must be a valid organization abbreviation associated with the Organization.

Document Maintenance

Maintenance Grp

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the group responsible for maintaining this document. This field can have up to 15 alphanumeric characters and must be a valid group. Document Maintenance Groups are established in the Costpoint Bills of Material Controls menu in Costpoint Bills of Material.

Created By

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the employee ID of the person who created this document. This field can have up to 12 alphanumeric characters and must be a valid employee ID from the Basic Employee Info screen in Costpoint Labor.

Date

Enter the date on which this document was created.

Released By

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the employee ID of the person who released this document. This field can have up to 12 alphanumeric characters and must be a valid employee ID from the Basic Employee Info screen in Costpoint Labor.

Date

Enter the date on which this document was released.

Plnd Rel Date

Enter the date on which this document is planned for release.

Location

Select this pushbutton to open a subtask where you can view the Location and Copy Location of the document.

Details

Select this pushbutton to open a subtask where you can view detail information about this document.

Parts

Use this pushbutton to open a subtask where you can view additional information about the parts of this document.

Text

Use this pushbutton to open a subtask where you can view additional information about this document's text.

Table Information

The information in this screen is stored in the DOCUMENT table. Information is also stored in and/or pulled from the DOC_TYPE, ORG, MAINT_GRP, and EMPL tables. Functions for the Maintain Documents and Release Documents screens are also dependent on the BOM_SETTINGS table.