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PC-DMIS provides you with Protect Viewer, which you can use to view and track changes to certified measurement routines.
A certified measurement routine is a routine that has been validated by a Programmer (member in the Protect-Programmer group). This routine meets internal requirements to use in production. The Protect application lets you control and track modifications to this measurement routine, such as:
Any internal organizational requirements
Specific externally-imposed process certification requirements (such as ISO and FDA)
The Protect Viewer installer (included with PC-DMIS installer) creates the Protect-Programmer group in the Local Users and Groups folder on your computer. This group's users can certify and edit certified measurement routines.
If you are not a member of the Protect-Programmer group, you can open, view, and execute certified routines in Protected Mode. However, you cannot certify routines nor edit certified measurement routines.
To make any changes in the Protect-Programmer group (such as add or delete the username), contact your computer's administrator.
To add a user or a group into the Protect-Programmer group, follow these steps:
Prerequisites:
Protect LMS License
Computer Administrator
Install the Protect Viewer installer (included with PC-DMIS installer). This creates the Protect-Programmer group in the Local Users and Groups folder on your computer.
To open the Edit local users and groups dialog box, follow either of these two ways:
Type local in the search box on the taskbar, and choose Edit local users and groups from the results.
Press Windows + R. In the Run dialog box, type lusrmgr.msc, and click OK.
From the left pane, click Groups. This displays the list of groups on your computer and contains the Protect-Programmer group.
Local Users and Groups screen with the Protect-Programmer group
Double-click Protect-Programmer to open the Protect-Programmer Properties dialog box.
Protect-Programmer Properties dialog box
From the Protect-Programmer Properties dialog box, click Add to open the Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box.
Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box
From the Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box, click Locations to open the Locations dialog box. You can connect the account as a network user or a local user.
To connect the account as a network user, from the Locations dialog box, select the network location. Click OK to close the Locations dialog box.
To connect the account as a local user, from the Locations dialog box, select the computer name. Click OK to close the Locations dialog box.
From the Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box, in the Enter the object names to select box, type your user name, and click Check Names. If you are connected to a network, the box displays an entry that displays your network's name.
You can also add the local group or network group into the Protect-Programmer group. This adds all the members in that local or network group into the Protect-Programmer group.
Click OK to close the Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box. In the Protect-Programmer Properties dialog box, the Members area displays the user name or group that you added in step 6.
Click OK to close the Protect-Programmer Properties dialog box.
To apply the changes, you must sign out of Windows and then sign in again.
You have successfully added the user or group into the Protect-Programmer group.
Whenever you make modifications to the Protect-Programmer group, you must sign out of Windows and then sign in again to apply those changes. After you add a network group to the Protect-Programmer group, if you then make modifications to the network group, you must be connected to the network to apply those changes.
When a member in the Protect-Programmer group certifies a measurement routine, the Protect application generates a .protect file for the measurement routine. Once the application creates the .protect file, the software updates the file each time you save the measurement routine.
The name of the file is <XYZ>.PRG.protect, where <XYZ> is the measurement routine's file name.
If the file name of a measurement routine is Test.PRG, then the Protect application generates the Test.PRG.protect file.
Protect creates a .protect file in the same folder as the measurement routine. You can view the .protect file in Protect Viewer.
When you launch Protect Viewer from the shortcut, the software displays the following screen:
Protect Viewer - View when you launch from the shortcut
Open - This button opens a standard Windows Open dialog box to locate and open a .protect file.
Once you select a file and click Open, the software displays the following screen:
Protect Viewer - View when you open a .protect file
The top-left corner displays the file name of the measurement routine.
To open another .protect file and close the current .protect file, click Open.
To close the .protect file and go back to the main screen, click Close.
To export the content in
Portable Document Format (.pdf), click 
.
Protect Viewer displays three columns:
Author - This column displays the name of the person who made the changes. It displays the name based on your registered name on the network. Otherwise, it displays the alias name on your local computer.
Log Details - This column displays the details of the changes. For each row, the software displays the comments that you entered when you certified or saved the measurement routine. The software displays the details of the changes in a tabular format:
Icon - This column displays the icon based on the modifications in a certified measurement routine:
- Displays
this icon for any update to a dimension, such as:
A value that was changed
An option that was turned on or off
- Displays
this icon for added dimensions.
- Displays
this icon for deleted dimensions.
Name - This column displays the dimensions's name.
Property - This column displays the dimension's property name.
Type - This column displays the dimension's type.
Previous - This column displays the dimension's property original value.
New - This column displays the dimension's property new value.
Modified Date - This column displays the date and time when the changes were saved for the measurement routine.
Language - This list lets you change the software's language.
To change the language, follow these steps:
Open Protect Viewer.
Open the Language list in the top-right corner.
Choose the desired language.
When a message asks if you want to switch the language, click Yes to restart the application in the selected language.