Copying Concept Data to the Component Variant 

Use

Once the possible solutions (concepts) have been analyzed and checked by the responsible project team members, you can copy the data of the feasible concept to the component variant.

Data is determined as in the simulation, but when you copy, the concept data determined is saved for the component variant. The following overview shows which tab pages the data of a concept is copied to.

Data of Concept	Data of Component Variant
Concept data	Basic Data 1 This data is entirely overwritten by the data of the concept.
Documents Before copying, you can select the documents that you want to be copied.	Documents The documents that are copied from the concept are added to the existing document.

Prerequisites

You have maintained the product structure in the product designer:

·        The product structure contains a component variant that has a concept group with at least one concept. You have defined the concept whose data you want to copy as the active concept.

See Creating a Concept

·        If you have maintained alternative product structures for different concepts, you have defined an access for the concept for the component variant.

See Creating an Access for a Concept

Before you copy the concept data to the component variant, we recommend that you simulate the data transfer.

Procedure

Start the product designer in change mode. Load the product structure in the navigation area.

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In the navigation area, expand the product structure until you see the component variant  for which you want to copy concept data.

If you double-click on the component variant  the data is loaded.

In the detail area, choose the Basic Data 1 tab page.

Scroll down until you see the Concept Reference dataset.

Below the concept group, the active concept whose data is to be copied is displayed. If you want to check the detail data again, choose  (Detail View) for the concept.

Choose Copy.

You see a dialog box, in which you can confirm the data transfer.
You see a list of the documents that are relevant to the concept.

Select the documents that you want to copy to the component variant.

Save the product structure.

Result

The data of the concept is copied to the component variant. You can trace your changes in a log.

See Displaying the Transfer Log