Selection of Validity

Function Validity in the title bar allows the definition of the validity of the material and its objects to be read and displayed. See below how validity settings between ProFramework and ProConfiguration are exchanged.

Select validity	Description / Application /Use

Select validity	Description / Application /Use
All validities	Description: The objects of a material are displayed for all validities (if activated, then without Declined changes). Application: You are interested in the history, the actual and future states of a KOFIMA-Item.
Validities starting with today's valid revision	Description: Objects for the selected material will be displayed for the actual validity revision level and revision levels in the future (if activated, then without Declined changes). Application: You are interested in the actual state of a KOFIMA-Item. But you also want to display current changes, which will become effective in the future.
Validities starting from today	Description: Select material and objects starting from today and all changes in future (if activated, then without Declined changes). Application: You are interested in the today's state of the configuration item, but also want to see running changes for the future.
Highest validity	Description: The objects of a material with the highest validity will be displayed. Depending on option without Declined changes, this is the absolute highest validity or the highest validity not declined. Application: You are interested in the highest valid state of a KOFIMA-item (today or in the future).
Declined changes	Declined changes are changes which are started but not ended and therefore not released. This is a declined state. The validity of such changes is always at the end of the date range (year 9999) and thus, such changes will never be used. Controls in the following settings, if declined changes are shown or not: All validities Validities starting with today's valid revision Validities starting from today Highest validity The options are handled in following way: Display, all objects → Declined changes are displayed with all data packages and object. Display, only declined object changes → Declined changes are displayed, but only data packages and objects which are changed with the corresponding change and therefore also were declined. Do not display → No declined changes are displayed.
Actual validity	Description: The objects of a material will be displayed for an actual validity. Application: You are interested in the actual valid state of a KOFIMA-item.
Key date	Description: The objects of a material will be displayed to the selected validity. Application: You are interested in the state of a KOFIMA-item on a certain date. The validity can be defined, with entry filed key date or with the push button. In this case the validities to different objects in the configuration can be selected.
Validity date range	Description: All objects of the material will be displayed to the validity date range selected. Application: You are interested in the state on a certain date or the history within a certain time range. Remarks: Please refer to option key date.

Exchange of validity settings between ProFramework and ProConfiguration

There are individual settings for the validity in ProFramework and in ProConfiguration . ProConfiguration provides more extensive options, in particular the display of several validities of a configuration within a date range. The table below describes how settings made in one application are exchanged with the other.

The validity ranges of ProFramework and ProConfiguration can be different. Correspondingly, the set ranges are displayed separately. For ProFramework in the push button to set the validity, in the CFM widget in the header of the navigation column.

User sets	It is synchronized as follows

User sets	It is synchronized as follows
ProFramework "Validity range"	Sets ProConfiguration "Validity range"
ProFramework "Key date"	Sets ProConfiguration "Key date"
ProFramework "Todays object validity" and ProFramework "Highest object validity"	In ProConfiguration "Actual validity" / "Highest validity" is set, except in ProConfiguration is one of the following settings active: All validities Validities starting with todays valid revision Validities starting from today In which case the CFM setting will not be changed. The ProConfiguration setting "Declined changes" will never be changed by a ProFramework validity setting
ProConfiguration "Validity range"	Sets ProFramework " Validity range"
ProConfiguration "Key date"	Sets the ProFramework the option "Key date"
ProConfiguration "Highest validity"	Sets ProFramework "Highest object validity"
ProConfiguration "Actual Validity"	Sets ProFramework "Todays object validity"
ProConfiguration "All validities", "Validities starting with todays valid revision" and "Validities starting from today"	If in ProFramework the option "Date range" or "Key date" is set, then the option is changed to "Todays object validity", else the ProFramework setting is not changed.