Renumber MF in the project to avoid duplications while 3x engineers working in parallel

Question

Hi All, in our project, we have 3x engineers working in parallel on HW EE, HW Mechanics and System. All 3x engineers create MF. Of course that despite an effort to differentiate MF counter in 3x projects, MF eventually overlapped and we have multiple MF used for different thing. I modified the following Java script originally received from ANSYS to firstly print MF in console (one Package e.g. System, Mechanics etc.)

Attached is java script: result can look like:

Script found 246 MFs in System Design package called: Electronics
===========================================================
MF214 for Lack of soldering
MF215 for Component not placed
MF216 for Overvoltage 3V3A
MF218 for Vibration / Electrical
MF220 for IC103 Internal failure
MF274 for IC102 Internal catastrophic failure
MF288 for IC103 Internal catastrophic failure
MF289 for Overvoltage 4V1

etc..

and Secondly to rename & renumber MFs

Script found 246 MFs in System Design package called: Electronics
===========================================================
Old id:MF214 is now new id MF_EE_001 for Lack of soldering
Old id:MF215 is now new id MF_EE_002 for Component not placed
Old id:MF216 is now new id MF_EE_003 for Overvoltage 3V3A
Old id:MF218 is now new id MF_EE_004 for Vibration / Electrical
Old id:MF220 is now new id MF_EE_005 for IC103 Internal failure
Old id:MF274 is now new id MF_EE_006 for IC102 Internal catastrophic failure
Old id:MF288 is now new id MF_EE_007 for IC103 Internal catastrophic failure
Old id:MF289 is now new id MF_EE_008 for Overvoltage 4V1

Since than, I keep different MF format for different working file, such as

Is this the best way?,

Any comments are welcomed.

Regards, Kamil

medini_1024169437 · Answer

Lukas,

I think Kamil attached it to its article. Can you see the attachment?

Jan

medini_1062494722 · Answer

Hi,

I would like to renumber my malfunctions, so can you maybe provide the scripting solution above for this?

Kind regards

Lukas

medini_1024169437 · Answer

Hi Kamil,

thanks for sharing your experience and scripts with the community, this is highly appreciated.

A few comments to the scripting itself:

* if you use "false" as a second argument to "Finder.findByType", you may skip it because "false" is the default here. See my other article named "The Finder (Part 1)"
* using "asArray()" at the end of your finder result, you should now have a native array at hand so the conversion routine to convert it into a naive JavaScript array should not be required any longer (however, I need to confirm this)
* once you have an array, you may use "forEach()" to execute a function for each element - sometimes this is more readable then writing a "for" loop

Happy Scripting
Jan