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Change ItemType and Affected Item
Good day all. I am working on modifying our change ItemTypes (don't use the OOTB ones). I have been looking at the Simple ECO as an example. Our current changes are associated to a single document/part. So if someone is updating a drawing that affects a part, they would have to submit two changes, it gets worse if this affects multiple things. I would like to modify (or create a new ItemType) these changes to have the Affected Items tab. I have been testing this with a custom ItemType, but am running into problems with the Has Changes getting updated. I looked at Changes Pending in Part post and saw that there were a few Methods that I needed to look at. I modified the Methods PE_update_has_change_pending and PE_ChangeItemTransition to include my change ItemType, but my test document will not get marked as Change Pending. I tested the Simple ECO and it does mark the document. Thank you for any help you can provide.
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Nathan_H_
5 years ago Place Development
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Impact Matrix - it´s time for a change! Ideas for alternative renderings/concepts for easier change management
Hi community, I am right now work on yet another custom CM process. It´s a typical process that affects multiple itemtypes, so my first plan was to do a custom version of the exiting Impact Matrix as seen in the Express ECO. I have built heavy custom versions of the Impact Matrix a couple of times and I am familiar with the concept. But I am tired of doing it. It´s a working concept, yes, but from my POV there is still a lot of room for improving the way end users do their changes. So instead of spending time for customizing the impact matrix again, I want to try to rebuild or at least to improve the concept on a general level. Of course I don´t want to reinvent the wheel from the scratch. I want to preserve the existing data structure based on Affected Items. But I want to provide additional way to display/render/work with the data. Some ideas: (some of them I already use in the current Impact Matrix, so these are not just an illusory wish list) - Make look&feel more flexible and intuitive - Work with data with less clicking - Improve Impact Matrix analysis for very large BOMs and complex structures - Comparing of previous and new data - Enable/disable upward/downward impact. - More flexible change planning option so the change does not change items on runtime (fundamental problem) - Rollback option - Provide alternative renderings of the existing data. Impact Matrix is basically just a viewer/input helper window for the Affected Items. It should by possible to render the data in various ways. Instead of resolving a repeating structure, sometimes a grouping the data would help users to not get lost in the matrix. I know that Aras partners offer custom CM processes. But they often only sell a few "easy-to-do" improvements and don´t address the hard stuff. I also don´t want to buy a dll based closed concept that is neither upgradable nor customizable. Does anyone want to join the project or can share ideas? Can you recommend concepts from other PLM software vendors that we can use as inspiration? What feature do you miss in Aras Change management? Any input welcomed! Angela
AngelaIp
4 years ago Place Community Lounge
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