Considerations for Updating Inspection Characteristics

Consider these points while updating item based and non-tem based inspection characteristics.

Updating an Item Based Inspection Characteristic

Here are some points to consider while updating an item based inspection characteristic:

• If the item inspection characteristic is not included in an inspection plan or if the inspection result value is not recorded against the characteristic, you can update all attributes of the inspection characteristic.

• If the characteristic type is either Date or Numeric and the item inspection characteristic is included in an inspection plan, or if the inspection result value has been recorded against the characteristic, then you can only update the Description, Enabled/Disabled, and Characteristic Group Association fields.

• If the characteristic type is Character and the item inspection characteristic is included in an inspection plan, or if the inspection result value has been recorded against the characteristic, then you can modify the Description, Enabled/Disabled, characteristic group association to the characteristic and Value List.

Updating a Non-Item Based Inspection Characteristic

Here are some points to consider while updating a non-item based inspection characteristic:

• If the non-item inspection characteristic is not included in an inspection plan or if the inspection result value has not been recorded against the characteristic, then you can update all attributes of the inspection characteristic.

• If the characteristic type is either Date or Numeric and the non-item inspection characteristic is included in an inspection plan, or if the inspection result value has been recorded against the characteristic, then you can only update the Description, Enabled/Disabled, and Characteristic Group Association fields.

• If the characteristic type is Character and the non-item inspection characteristic is included in an inspection plan, or if the inspection result value has been recorded against the characteristic, then you can modify the Description, Enabled/Disabled, Characteristic Group Association, and the Value List fields.