10.3.1 Overview

The ArticleSpecManagementType contains a list of articles and methods to add and remove article specs from the server. It is formally defined in Table 43.

Each Article Spec represents to a 3:ISA95MaterialDataType with the Properties shown in Table 18 (VECPartVersion, VECDocumentVersion and Processes). The table has four columns. The first column displays the VEC attribute, the second provides an additional commonly used name, followed by a description and an indication of whether the parameter is always required or optional. The VEC attribute can be a direct child of the specification or a child of a subelement; in the latter case, it is separated by a "/".

The properties VECPartVersion, VECDocumentVersion and Processes may not be provided by the server in the ArticleList but need to be send from the client to the server (in the method calls). The Values depend on the kind of process and the Part. Table 40 - Table 42 show which fields need to be filled for each process the article spec should describe.