Entering Site Clusters—Exercises

IMPORTANT
To the students: It is important that you set up and work with your own delivery addresses and sites to maintain your data integrity. Otherwise you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students.

To the teacher: Make sure all users are defined in the Sites per User window. Also make sure all users are connected to company 10.

Basic Data Setup

Enter Delivery Address

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter delivery addresses for your sites.

Windows:
Company

  1. In the Company window, query for company 10.
  2. Click the Address tab. For company 10, enter a number of addresses, for instance XX1 to XX20. Instead of XX, use your initials.
  3. Set the address type to include delivery.

General exercise for Company Setup

Enter Site

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter sites that you later will use to create a site cluster.

Windows:
Site
Sites per User

  1. In the Site window, create a number of sites, for instance XX1 to XX20. Instead of XX, use your initials.
  2. Use distribution calendar and manufacturing calendar *.
  3. Connect the sites to company 10.
  4. Use the delivery addresses you entered in the previous exercise.
  5. In the Sites per User window connect the sites to your user ID.

General exercise for Enter Site

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to create and modify a site cluster.

Windows:
Site Cluster
Sites per User

  1. In the Site Cluster window, enter a site cluster and a description.
  2. In the Site Cluster Levels tab, enter the levels you want to have in your site cluster.
  3. In the Structure tab, select a node, right-click and then click Create Sub Nodes. Create as many sub nodes as you want. Make sure not to use the same ID for your nodes as the ones you used for your sites. It is not allowed to use the same node ID several times in the same site cluster.
  4. Select a new node, right-click and then click Create Sub Nodes. Create as many sub nodes as you want.
  5. Continue in this way until you have a site cluster structure that is as wide and as deep as you want. Create a site cluster that has at least three branches on the second level.
  6. At the bottom of each branch, right-click and then click Connect Sites. Connect one or several of the sites you created in the previous exercise. You can only connect your user allowed sites. When you connect sites, a node is automatically created with the site as node ID.
  7. Select a node in the Structure tab. In the Node Information tab, you can see if the node is connected to a site. In this tab you can also see on what level the current node is placed in the structure. The system automatically sets the correct level for a node.
  8. If the structure you created is deeper than expected, you can simply add levels in the Site Cluster Levels tab.
  9. Select a node in the Structure tab; select a node that has sub nodes. Delete this node and all its sub nodes by right-clicking and then clicking Delete Node.
  10. Select a node in the Structure tab; select a node that has sub nodes. Move this node and all its sub nodes to another node in your structure by using the drag-and-drop technique.
  11. To see the whole structure again, select the top node and then right-click and click Expand Descendents.
  12. If you want to, you can try to distribute the sites in your site cluster to another user. In the Sites per User window. Query for a user, preferably a user connected to one of the other students in your group. Right-click and then click Connect All Sites in Site Cluster. If the user is connected to the same company as you, the user will receive all your sites as his/her user-allowed sites.