Managing Inconsistent Links Between Products and Items

You can use the Manage Inconsistent Links Item - Product command to repair inconsistent implement links between products and items. You can use the Change Impact Management command to repair inconsistent implement links between products and items. Inconsistent links are due to deletions, rerouting, and so on.

Before you begin: Open Manufacturing Assembly and Product structures in your app. The structures must contain inconsistent Product-Item links.
See Also
Item-Product Scope
  1. From the Tools section of the action bar, click B.I. Essentials .
    The B.I. Essentials list appears.
  2. Click Item Update Status from the list.
    The yellow status of the items indicates that one or more objects have been unloaded, deleted, or modified: this results in inconsistent links. See Item Update Status.
  3. From the Authoring section of the action bar, click Manage Inconsistent Links Item - Product .
    The Manage Inconsistent Links: Product-Item panel is displayed. It proposes actions to correct the inconsistent links.
    Notes:
    • An item can be selected directly in the tree. In this case, the command retrieves all inconsistent links for the selected item and its children.
    • You can use the DELPLMFProcessInstance_RerouteUserListCandidates_ID business logic to specify on which product to reroute an inconsistent link, and the default action to perform.

    The columns in the panel are as follows:

    Suggestion to Perform: The proposed action to fix the link:

    • Ignore: By default, if there are several products in the same family in the session. The implement link will not be fixed even if it is selected in the dialog box.
    • Remove Link: By default, if there is no product in the same family in the session. The implement link will be deleted.
    • Reroute Only: By default, if there is only one product in the same family in the session. The implement link will be rerouted.
    • Evolve Instance-Reroute: If only one candidate resource for rerouting is found in the session and no configuration mode is selected for the session.
    • Interactive Reroute: If no candidate resource for rerouting is found in the session.
    • Evolve Instance-Interactive Reroute: If no candidate resource for rerouting is found in the session and a configuration mode is selected for the session.
    • Delete Item: Action available from the context menu, deletes the instance of the item.
    • Delete Item & Operation: Action available from the context menu, deletes the instances of the item and of the operation involved.
    • Replace By New Revision - Reroute: Action available from the context menu, replaces the instance of the item.

    In this case, family means different revisions of the same product.

    Rerouting Proposal: A candidate product for rerouting the link. This may be:

    • <product instance name>: If there is only one product in the same family in the session
    • None: If there is no product in the same family in the session
    • Ambiguous: If there are several products in the same family in the session

    Previous Product: The product previously linked with the item.

    Item: The item involved in the inconsistent link.

    Note: If a red cross is displayed instead of an item icon in the Item column, this means that the item can be deleted.

    Operation: The operation involved in the link.

    Note: An operation can be deleted only when it is linked to a single item.

    Resource: The resource involved in the link.

    Note: Manage the selected items with Center Tree , Properties , and Reframe On.
  4. Select the Delete line in the panel and click Apply.
    The item-operation implement link is deleted. The item is deleted. If the operation was linked to a single item, it is also deleted. The panel is updated.
  5. Select the Reroute line in the panel and click Apply.

    If there is only one product on the same family in the session, the link is rerouted.

    If you try to reroute one or more ambiguous cases, a reroute assistant is launched. Then you can choose a product from all candidate products available in the session to reroute the link.

  6. Right-click the Ignore line in the panel and select Delete.
  7. Select the Delete line in the panel and click Apply.
    The green status of the items indicates that their update status is good: the inconsistent links are resolved.

Note: If you work under a configuration, the reroute and delete actions occur under this effectivity mode.