Entering content frameFunction documentation Document Assignments Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

This function enables you to assign one or more documents to a BOM item or a BOM header. In this way, you can quickly access documents and display the originals when you process a BOM.

Example

If, for example, you assign the design drawing of the appropriate components to each item, when you process the BOM you can immediately view the drawing for the specific component.

Furthermore, the assignment of documents to BOM headers and items is a prerequisite for Digital Mock-Up Viewing.

Prerequisites

In Customizing the document management (Define document type ® Determine object link), you define with which BOM headers and items the document type can be linked.

See also:

Structure link Object Links

Features

You can assign a document to a BOM header or item. On the header detail screen and the item detail screen of each item there is a tab page with a list of the assigned documents. In this list, you can:

Digital Mock-Up Viewing

Document assignment is a prerequisite for Digital Mock-Up Viewing. If you want to view the 3D model of an assembly in the Engineering Workbench, document info records for the 3D models of the appropriate components have to be assigned to the BOM items. If yo u work with the CAD interface and you have set the parameters for Digital Mock-Up Viewing, the system automatically carries out the assignments.

See also:

Structure link Digital Mock-Up Viewing

Constraints

Document assignment is only supported for material BOMs and order BOMs.

Activities

You can assign a document to a BOM header or item:

You are in the header detail screen or in an item detail screen of a material BOM.

  1. Choose the Document assignment tab page.
  1. On an empty line, enter the document type and the document number as well as the document part ID and version number.
  1. Save.
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