Details
From NX1847, Shortcuts for "Quality Dashboard" and "Validation Rule Editor" are not found anymore in Start Menu
Solution
From NX1847, shortcuts for "Quality Dashboard" and "Validation Rule Editor" are not found anymore in Start->All Programs->Siemens NX [version]->NXTools->Quality Dashboard.
It is fixed in NX 1880.
Please follow one of the below procedure to launch Quality Dashborad.
Method1:
Locate the quality_dashboard folder, as you already located it at "C:\Siemens\NX1872\DESIGN_TOOLS\checkmate\tools\quality_dashboard\".
Double click on the file "qdashboard.jar" and if the required java version is installed, regardless of the environment variable being set correctly or not, the Quality Dashboard interface which has "Check-Mate Viewer" and "Quality Dashboard Report Generator" will open and work normally.
Method2:
Be sure that you are running the qdashboard.bat from a NX Command Prompt shell.
Use Start-> All Programs-> Siemens NX1872 -> Tools-> NX Command Prompt.
Then from the new shell window that comes up, enter the command: %UGII_BASE_DIR%\DESIGN_TOOLS\checkmate\tools\quality_dashboard\qdashboard.
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You can add these as shortcut links to have them in the startup menu as well.
Hardware/Software Configuration
Platform: INTEL
OS: windows
OS Version: 764
Product: NX
Application: SYSTEM
Version: V1872
Function: WNT_INSTALL
Ref: 002-8015357