DFR Gate Properties Window

The DFR Gate Properties window displays the status of the selected gate at the top of the window (i.e., "Not Started," "In Progress," "Completed" or "Overdue"), and it allows you to view and edit the gate's other properties, described below. Note that when a higher-level gate's properties are determined by its lower-level gates/actions, the input fields for those properties will be disabled.

Gate: These fields provide details about the gate.
- Name: The name of the gate. This is a required input.
- Description: A description of what is supposed to be accomplished by the end of this gate in the DFR process.
- Deliverables: What will be completed by the end of the gate.
- Priority: The gate's priority level. You can choose Low, Medium or High from the drop-down list.
Team Members: Displays all team members that are involved in completing this gate. Double-click the [...] icon to open the Select Users window. This window displays a list of users who have access to the database. (If you are working in a standard database without login security, any user who has ever opened the database will have an account created automatically and will be shown in this list.)
Precedent Gate: Specifies the gate that is immediately prior to the selected one. For example, if the current order of gates A and B is A --> B and you wanted to change the order to B --> A, then you could set the precedent gate of B to "None" and then set the precedent gate of A to "B."
Timeline
- Planned Start / Due Date: The gate's planned start and due dates. To clear/update the planned dates for all gates in the planner, choose DFR > Tools > Set Planned Dates.
- Start / Due Date: The gate's actual start and due dates. You can enter the start date only for gates without precedents. You can enter the due date for any gate. See DFR Planner Logic for information on how other dates are set automatically.
- Duration: The amount of time between the actual start and due dates.
Completion
- Completion Date: The date the gate was completed.
- Completion Notes: Notes about the gate's completion.
- Other Notes: Any additional notes regarding the gate.
Target Metrics
- Reliability / Availability: The reliability or availability that you hope to achieve when the gate is completed (i.e., the target value) and that was actually achieved when it was completed (i.e., the achieved value). The achieved values may be obtained from the Current Reliability/Availability properties in the failure modes and reliability analysis (FMRA).
The History fields display information about when the gate was created and last modified

For text fields, you can click the Select Existing icon inside the field. This will open a window that allows you to reuse text that has already been entered in this type of field.

For date fields, you can click the field once to open a calendar or twice to type the date. You must use the mm/dd/yy or mm/dd/yyyy format.