Understanding the Teamcenter to TiCon mapping

You can access time data from TiCon, an external time management system, and assign it to activities in Manufacturing Process Planner using a Web service. You can search for time elements in TiCon, create new activities, or overwrite existing activities with the timing data of time elements, and update activities assigned to time elements that were changed in TiCon. You can use the existing time management features to calculate time analysis based on the TiCon data.

By default, Teamcenter uses the following internal mapping system to map Teamcenter activity properties to TiCon time element attributes:

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  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <xsi:Configuration xmlns:xsi="http://www.siemens.com/plm/Teamcenter/MSE/
TimeFieldMap">
   <FieldMapping>
     <Field TeamcenterProperty="al_activity_object_name" 
TimeSystemAttribute="description"/>
     <Field TeamcenterProperty="al_activity_time_system_unit_time" 
TimeSystemAttribute="tg"/>
     <Field TeamcenterProperty="al_activity_time_system_category" 
TimeSystemAttribute="indicator1id">
       <Value TeamcenterPropertyValue="NA" TimeSystemAttributeValue="1"/>
       <Value TeamcenterPropertyValue="VA" TimeSystemAttributeValue="10000"/>
       <Value TeamcenterPropertyValue="NVA" TimeSystemAttributeValue="10001"/>
     </Field>
   </FieldMapping>
 </xsi:Configuration>

You can use the default mapping as a starting point to create your own mapping file. You can modify the default mapping to map your company’s activity properties to the TiCon time element attributes.