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Engineering Change Management: Structure Overview

Description

As of release 3.0, you can display the complete structure overview of an object. All functionally related objects (for example, material, bill of material, document, change master record, routing) can be displayed together using this function. Only the details that are required for the current processing situation are displayed.
You can also use the structure overview to find change objects for which you want to create object management records.

To display a structure overview, choose menu option Extras then Structure overview .

• To explode a structure overview, you can select one initial object: a document, a material or a change master record. These objects have different structure overviews. If you display the structure overview of a document, for example, the structure is divided into document parts, document versions, or object links. If you display the structure overview of a change master record, first you see a list of all the object types for which object management records exist (for example, material or document).

• If you display more details, the structure overview is exploded in the form of a hierarchy. You can explode each object independently of any other objects on the same level of the hierarchy.
  This allows you to display only the details you really need. For example, you can display a structure overview for a change master record that shows only the document structures and documents linked to the change master record.