Working with the Tightening Program Tab

Viewing the list of Tightening Programs

Select a controller in the Plant structure workspace .
On the toolbar, select Tightening program .

The Tightening program overview shows a list of tightening programs.

The list has the following columns:

List of tightening programs
Column	Description
Check box	Select a tightening program by marking a check box.
Name	Name of the tightening program. A Push indicator can be visible in adjacent to the name indicating that changes have been made, but not yet pushed to the controller.
Strategy	The tightening strategy selected for the tightening program.
Description	Description of the tightening program as described in the Properties field of each tightening program.
Library Link	Indicates if the program is linked to a Global tightening program in the tightening program library.
Target	The final tightening target is either expressed as a torque value or as an angle value.
Last change	Last changes made, expressed in ToolsTalk 2 time.
Changed by	Indicates which user made the last changes.
Controller updated	Last changes pushed to a controller, expressed in controller time.
Controller updated by	Indicates which user made the last push to the controller.
Approval status	Approval status of the tightening or loosening program

The field Changed by can be a registered ToolsTalk 2 user, as it is done via the ToolsTalk 2 GUI.

The field Controller updated by can be a registered ToolsTalk 2 user, via the web-GUI or via the controller-GUI.

The following columns can be filtered by texts in the search box: Name, Strategy, Description, Target and Changed by.

Command buttons in the tightening workspace
Command	Description
Add	Creates a new tightening program.
Manage	Add to library: Converts a Local tightening program into a Global tightening program. Unlink: Converts a Global tightening program into a Local tightening program. Compare: Compares two selected tightening programs. These must have the same strategy. Export. Exports a selected tightening program. File format is .json Export to csv. (not available for mutistep) Exports selected tightening program(s). File format is .csv Delete. Removes selected tightening program(s) from the list.

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