Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Teamcenter - What is the difference between Item & Item revision in Teamcenter ?


Items and Item revisions

Items and item revisions are the fundamental data objects used to manage
information in Teamcenter.
  • Items are structures that are generally used to represent a product, part or component. Items can contain other data objects including other items and folders.
  • Item revisions are data objects used to manage revisions to items.
  • Each item revision has one or more associated sequence IDs. Checkout actions increment the sequence ID for the item revision, with the most recent sequence ID becoming the default.
Item : Represents parts and documents

When you create a new subclass of the Item business object or one of its children, the  following are automatically created: 

ItemMaster, ItemMasterS, ItemRevision, ItemRevisionMaster, ItemRevMasterS.

The same types of master forms are also created for all the children of the Item business object.


5 comments:

  1. Is there a way to be notified when a new item revision is created within an item?

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  2. Yes, of course. You can customize the way you like.

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  3. It is possible to subcribe to an object in Teamcenter. Subscription manager lets you to do this.
    You get notified when a new item Revision is created or released based on what you subscribe to.

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  4. Is it possible to automatically initiate workflow after item creation in TCUA? and How?

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  5. Yes! You can write custom hook on IMAN_Save of Item Revision to initiate on the created item. But you have to handle the condition that your custom hook should only trigger on create operation. You can't initialize your custom hook on ITEM_create operarion since TC9.1 as it won't allow you to submit to workflow. So use Item Revision IMAN_Save operation. As specified above handle the conditions as IMAN_Save is triggered at multiple points such as item modifications, when user checkout and checkin, edit properties, when item revision is opened in structure manager etc..,. I hope this information is helpful.

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