Time Groups

This information is specific to the latest release of PARCview:

7.2.x

The Time Groups tab is used to create a list of time intervals for reporting, such as a crew schedule or production day. When time periods occur is configured in the Time Periods tab. The intervals are either implicit, tag based, or stored in the database.

PARCSecurity Permissions

PARCsecurity Console should be configured for the following permissions for rights to System Configuration elements.

• DataPARC Admin: Grants administrative access to PARCview.
• System Config Process Area: Grants access to the Process Area tab in System Configuration.
• System Config Process Tags: Grants access to the Process Tags tab in System Configuration.
• System Config Reason/Evidence/Category: Grants access to the Reason, Evidence and Category tabs in System Configuration.

Configuration

Time Periods, once defined, can be grouped together in the Time Groups tab. Time groups are user defined collections of time intervals for reporting. An example of a logical group of time periods such as Shift or Operations. Used in Logbook to associate entries with time periods.

There are three methods of specifying how time periods can be configured.

Implicit: Implicit periods are standard time intervals like hour and day or a calendar period like Month. These do not have to be configured for a site. They are automatically available.

Database: Database periods represent time intervals local to a site that must be configured. Examples include production day (e.g. 6:00 am to 6:00 am), day shift (e.g. 6:00am to 6:00pm), night shift (e.g. 6:00pm to 6:0am) , fiscal periods (e.g. May 3 to June 1), or rotating crew schedules. These time periods are pre-defined and stored in the SQL configuration database.

Tag: Tag periods are defined by the state change of a tag. For instance a tag that represents a product being made (process product tag). Tag-based periods are not fixed time intervals. The interval is calculated as the timespan between tag value changes.

Log Files

PARCMessage is a built-in error monitoring software. It creates an ongoing log of errors generated from PARCview on the specific computer where PARCMessage is running in the system tray. The Icon in the tray is a triangle, red if errors are present, and green if there are no errors.

Errors can also be stored in the PARCview install directory both on the server and clients ...\Capstone\PARCView\LogFiles.

Required Server Applications

No server applications are required to use System Configuration.

UA Server: All PARCview vr 7 functionality requires a Universal Access (UA) server.

GDS: All PARCview vr 7 functionality requires a Global Discovery Server (GDS).