Printing a Multi-Level BOM Report for an Effectivity Resolved BOM
Experts - How do I print a multilevel BOM report for an effectivity resolved BOM? More details: We built a 150% BOM with model effectivity. We resolve the BOM to 100% by applying the model effectivity. Now we want to print this as a Multi-level BOM Report so that procurement can do their stuff? Exporting to excel is not an option, since the report is formatted and does not need all of the properties. Kamran
Effectivity for Documents instead for Parts?
Hi community, is anyone of you familiar with the "Effectivity" features? If yes, do you know if we can use it for other ItemTypes than 'Part' and 'BOMs'? From my opinion "Effectivity" in Product Engineering was one of the most bizarre ideas our Boston friends ever had. It´s a feature that I never understood cause it doesn´t blend into the rest of Innovator. Not into change management, not into standard versioning and definitely not to other application like MPP. I already wrote about this in a previous forum post: https://community.aras.com/f/community/5344/will-effectivity-destroy-product-traceabilty For me Effectivity looks like a custom solution built for a single target customer that was never indented to incorporated with the rest. BUT: Maybe this feature is useful for tasks outside BOM control. I think it would work much better for Documents! Case Document can change independent from the product, for example when legal requirement changes or you just have to update some generic information in the document. For this use case, Effectivity for Document suddenly sounds very useful. Maybe also Compliance data could be handled that way, cause here effectivity according to date or other factors is something common. But for addressing these use cases, Effectivity has to be supported by other ItemTypes. Something, that I never have seen or tested by myself. Has anyone tested something like this and can share experience? Thanks for any input! Angela
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
Aras 12.0 effectivity with OR condition
Hello, I'm using effectivity in tree grid views in Aras 12. One use case I had was to have effectivity on different levels. So that the top level of a structure has certain effectivity configurations and lower levels have their own that refer to the top level. But in order to do this I think I would need to have an OR condition in my effectivity criteria. I have been able to programatically set the "EffectivityCriteriaDefinition" parameter of the query definition to filter by 1 option for a variable by setting the parameter like this: <eq> <variable id="item_id_model" /> <named-constant id="item_id_z5" /> </eq> but when I try to use this type of OR value for the parameter the tree grid fails to render: <or> <eq> <variable id="item_id_model" /> <named-constant id="item_id_z5" /> </eq> <eq> <variable id="item_id_unit" /> <constant type="int">10</constant> </eq> </or> Is this a bug in the tree grid/query definition implementation of effectivity or am I approaching this the wrong way? Best Regards RickAras 12 effectivity on custom itemtypes
Hello Is there any help documentation available for effectivity in the open Aras 12 version? I know that there's documentation for the sample application for Aras 11, but the part BOM effectivity seems to be set up differently in Aras 12. I've been trying to use effectivity with a custom itemtype by mimicing the way the Part BOM effectivity scope, query definitions and tree grid views are set up, but I've been unsuccessful. I would greatly appreciate any advice. Best Regards RickWill 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