Highlighting Instances with Same Effectivity

You can select all the instances in a product structure that have exactly the same effectivity expression on every model as compared to the initially selected instance.

Before you begin: Open a configured product structure in Product Structure Design work area. For more information about opening, see Product Structure Design User Guide: Working with Products: Opening a Product.
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Highlighting Instances with Different Effectivity
Highlighting Instances from the Configuration Criteria
  1. From the standard area of the action bar, click Menu Bar.
    The context menu appears.
  2. To select the authoring context of your choice, select View > Toolbars > App Options.
    The App Options panel appears.
  3. Select an instance of your choice in the product structure and click Select Instances with Same Effectivity in the Configuration Analysis area of the App Options panel.

    All the instances having the same effectivity are highlighted (in both the tree and in 3D). You can further expand your product structure to see if any unexpanded instances are highlighted by your analysis.

    Tip: To view the effectivity expression of a selected instance, select Configuration Effectivity in the B.I. Essentials panel. For more information about viewing the effectivity of an instance, see Displaying Configuration Effectivity Using PLM B.I. Essentials.