Create your own data card

Procedure

1. Create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing the data card information.

Each cell holding the time data must contain a hyperlink with the following format: usercode://code1|time_as_double|description

Where

Is

code1

The time code that appears in the Code column in the Activities table.

time_as_double

The time required for the activity expressed as a double format.

description

The description of the activity. Teamcenter copies the description and uses it as the name of the activity.

Note You must use the pipe character (|) as a separator. To prevent illegal characters, you can use the ASCII hexadecimal representation %7C. You can use other hexadecimal symbols to replace special symbols in your URL text if you get incorrect results.

2. In Excel, choose File→Save As... to save the spreadsheet as a Web page (HTM or HTML extension).

3. Type the path to the HTM or HTML file in the METimeDataCardPath preference.

4. Make sure that the METimeDataCardConversionFactor preference is correctly set.

If you enter seconds as the unit in the Excel sheet, set this factor to 1. Tip You can also find these preferences in the Data Card section of the Time tab of the Manufacturing section of the preference Options dialog box.

5. Restart Teamcenter.

When you open a data card in the Time view, Teamcenter displays a tab for each sheet in the Excel file. When you click an activity cell in the data card, the activity time is displayed in the Activities table of the Time view.