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Document management: Document structures
Description
As of Release 3.0, you can create document structures. A document structure
is created for a document info record and is made up of document items, such
as drawings, photographs, papers, or text items.
Previously, the only way of incorporating a document into a hierarchy was
to enter a superior document for it. Since this relationship was mutually
exclusive, it was not possible to use this document structure for other
documents as well.
- The document structure functions allow you:
- to trace all the instances where each document is used
- to carry out a mass change for a document in selected document
structures.
- to use a repetitive document structure as an "assembly" in several
places
The term "assembly" originates from the context
of material BOMs. In the context of document strucures, it is used to describe
a set of related documents. The document defined as an assembly can in turn be
a component of another assembly.
- Just as with material BOMs, you can maintain variant document structures,
which you can assign to a common BOM group.
- You maintain the header of the variant document structure in the same way
as you do for material BOMs.
- When maintaining items, please note the following:
- You can only enter document items and text items.
- Under "General data", you therefore only enter particular quantity data as
well as data which is relevant for the recursiveness check.
- Only the following item statuses can be maintained: "relevant to
engineering" and "relevant to PM".