General

General

Display/GUI

• Use Default PDF Viewer - Specifies the default PDF viewer for visual aids. Setting this property to False will use the workstation's default application for  viewing PDF documents.

• Show Option Code Descriptions - Displays the description for option codes and configuration options in all areas where they are displayed.

• Default Page Size - Sets the default value for all paging controls.

• Default Font - Specifies the default font for text you create in FactoryLogix, for example visual aids, reference designators, and labels in FactoryLogix Office.

• Default Culture - Specifies the default language to use FactoryLogix.

General

E-mail

• System Administrator E-mail Address - The specified recipient receives all IT-related email notifications, including license server failover notifications and other IT-related system messages.

• SMTP Server - Specifies the SMTP server to use when sending emails.

• Send E-mail Address Category - Applies to signoff notifications only.

  • Use Default means that emails will be sent from the user email address (if defined) or from the Global Options email address.

  • Use Global E-mail Address Always will always send emails from the Global Options email address.

• Port Settings - All port settings default to 25. If you change the value, this port will replace the default value for all ports.

Note

For a complete list of default port settings, see FactoryLogix default port settings.

• Enable SSL - Enables SSL if using encryption on an Exchange server (the default setting is False).

• E-mail Username - Specifies the email user name to use when sending emails.

• E-mail Password - Specifies the password to use when sending emails.

• E-mail Address - Specifies the default e-mail address to use when sending emails.

General

Licensing

• Primary License Server Name - Set this option if the License Enforcement key is not located on the same server as the Application Service. (If they are on the same computer, this value is not needed.)

General

Active Directory

• Use SSL - When selected, the system will use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) when validating Active Directory. (This option requires SSL enabled for your Active Directory server.) 

• Directory Lookup Username (optional) - Some Active Directory systems don't allow users to have directory lookup privileges. In these systems, a proxy username and password are required.

• Directory Lookup Password (optional) - Some Active Directory systems don't allow users to have directory lookup privileges. In these systems, a proxy username and password are required.

• Active Directory use Principal Context - When set to True, limits the search to the current Principal Content when synchronizing groups with Active Directory.

• Active Directory Domain (optional) - A number of networks utilize more than one domain. In these cases, this value is the domain name of the Active Directory server. (Most systems don't need to have this value specified.)

Note

To set a particular Domain Controller for Active Directory authentication in FactoryLogix, enter “DC=[Domain Controller Server Address]” in the Active Directory Domain global setting. Doing this forces the forces the authentication to override to a specific domain controller instead of the first one available from the domain.

General

User

• User Access Mode - Determines the behavior and rules to use with regard to accessing assemblies and associated processes and batches.

  • Customer-Focused Filtering (default setting) - When one or more users are associated with a particular customer, only those users are permitted to view assemblies for that customer.

  • User-Focused Filtering - Users are only permitted to view assemblies for customers they are assigned against in the Customer Library. (Users not assigned against any customers are permitted to see all assemblies.)

• User Single Sign-On - Uses logon information from the logged-in user's Kerberos ticket information for FactoryLogix login instead of a domain username and password.

• Allow Changing of Password - Allows users to change their FactoryLogix password from the main Login screen using the Settings button.

General

Version 7 Import

• Version 7 DSN - The Data Source Name (DSN) of a Version 7 database. When set to True, allows importing Version 7 assemblies, process revisions, and visual aids.

• Populate Assembly Revision Description by: Determines how the Assembly Revision Description property in FactoryLogix is populated from Version 7 data:

  • Use Default - Uses the FactoryLogix assembly description.

  • Use Assembly Description - Uses the Version 7 assembly description.

  • Use Assembly Revision Description - Uses the Version 7 assembly revision description.

  • Concatenate the Assembly and Assembly Revision Descriptions - Concatenates (links) the Version 7 assembly and assembly revision descriptions.

• Merge New Operation with Default Operation Template - When set to True and working in unmapped mode, the default FactoryLogix operation template is applied to every operation before the Version 7 data is imported into FactoryLogix.

• Enable CPF File Import - When set to True, allows importing *.cpf files from a Version 7 database.

• Database Username - The user name to connect to a Version 7 database. When set to True, allows importing Version 7 assemblies, process revisions, and visual aids.

• Database Password - The password to connect to a Version 7 database. When set to True, allows importing Version 7 assemblies, process revisions, and visual aids.

• Database Authentication - The authentication type to connect a Version 7 database (NTAuth or DBAuth). When set to True, allows importing Version 7 assemblies, process revisions, and visual aids.

  • Custom 1 - 4 - Adds Version 7 custom field values in named custom fields defined against the assembly’s Internal Part Number in the target FactoryLogix database. (See Define custom fields for more information.)

General

Machine Programming

• Default Program Path - The default program path to apply when selecting a machine type for a workstation or workstation cluster (only applies when a machine type was not previously set).

General

General

• Work Breakdown Structure - When set to True, enables the use of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in stocking and receiving activities when using Logistics functions.

• Scale Printed Visual Aids to Page Size - When set to True, scales all visual aids to fit the current page size.

• Network Statistic Lifespan - Specifies the amount of time (in days) that a Network Statistic record can exist in the database before it is purged.

• Maximum Stored Image Dimension - Specifies the maximum allowable width of any image added to an Active Work instruction. The default value is 800 and the maximum value is 3840 (4K width). When an image is wider than the specified value, it is resized down automatically to the width of this setting (the aspect ratio of the image will be maintained). This option will not affect existing images.

• FactoryLogix Website Session Timeout (minutes) - Specifies the amount of time (in minutes) that a user's session remains valid when they leave their web browser open and inactive on the FactoryLogix dashboards website. After a user has been inactive for this amount of time, the session is no longer valid and the user will be forced to login the next time they interact with the website.

• Exclude calibration Units from Metrics - When enabled, units marked as calibration are omitted from quality and performance metrics such as DPMO, OEE and Yield.

• Defined First Full Week of Year - Sets the first full week of the year:

  • ISO 8601 Week Based – Sets first week of the year that contains the first Thursday of January.

  • First Day – Sets the first week of the year that starts on the first day of the year and ends before the following designated first day of the week.

  • First Four Day Week – Sets the first week of the year as the first week with 4 or more days before the designated day of the week.

  • First Full Week – Sets the first week of the year that begins on the first occurrence of the designated first day of the week.