17.6 - Notification when configuring if condition is not met

Sometimes it may be desirable to have a message displayed when configuring.  In this lesson, we will go over a possibility to add notification when configuring if condition is not met. Consider the following examples:

• More than a certain number of Features have been selected during configuration.

• A certain percentage must be reached by filling in different percentages.

To properly indicate whether this is the case, you can build a 'notification' into the configuration model.

How to add a notification

If the upper situations occur in your Configuration Model, you can build-in a notification which will alert the user. To add a notification to your Configuration Model, follow these steps

1. Create a new Feature called: Mention. 

2. Add it to a desired location in the Configuration Model

3. Open the Feature.

4. Add a text to the Description or/and Extended descriptions.

When you add a text to the Feature, you may use a different color to make it clear for the user that something is wrong in the Configuration.

How to build logic on the Feature.

Now that we added the Mention Feature, we need to add some logic to it. For this Example we have build the following Configuration Model:

In this model, every Option adds a certain percentage to the configuration. But when all options are selected, the total percentage would be 125%. We want to add logic that when the Configuration model has more than 100%, the mention will appear. To add this to you Configuration Model, follow these steps:

1. Open the condition constraint of the Mention Feature

2. Add options 1,2 and 3 as a variable

3. Add the following Formula: Option1 + Option2 + Option3 > 100

Basically, you have specified that when the combined value of the 3 options is Greater than 100%, the Mention Feature will be Shown. When this is not the case, the mention Feature will be not visible.

When you preview this in the order entry, it will look like this: