Searching by effective date when adding relationships
Hello - We have an application built within Innovator that is similar to the Digital Twin concept, with configurations of components within modules tracked as versions of the module item, and 'hard fixed' relationships between the recorded jobs and the specific version of module which was used. This works really well as long as the job is entered at the time, but quite often jobs are entered retrospectively after new versions of the modules have been created, and users often forget about the process to find a specific historical version (using generation > 0 search criteria), instead just selecting the latest. In the main search grids you can search with the 'query type' set to 'effective' and set which date you're interested in (e.g. in my case the job date), which returns the relevant historical versions rather than the latest. Does anyone know a way to mimic this in the relationship search dialog? Many thanks
Will Effectivity destroy product traceabilty?
Hi, Sorry for the clickbait title. But I really struggle to understand the purpose of the Effectivity feature integrated in newer Aras versions. It tried to find somebody at Ace Europe 2018 who could explain me the practical use of Effectivity, but somehow even most of the Aras employees didn´t seem to understand the feature. From my current point of view, it´s a nice feature…that will only work in theory. I especially struggle to understand how Effectivity shall integrate into the regular change and variant management. One answer I got was: "Effectivity defines an item structure based on conditions, like date." So is Effectivity equal to Change Management – just without revision handling? But how can stackholders then identify an item in reality? How do they track changes? Let´s assume you have 3 versions of a product with the same revision E, but 3 effectivity structures. How will you handle these products in your storage area? What about product compliance? How do employees know, that the three products are not equal (maybe via serial number?)? And will a revision change destroy your effectivy structures? Would be happy if somebody could explain me the puprose of effectivy and how to use it! Maybe things are easier, than I rate them right now. Thanks! Angela