Generating a Multi-Level Report

The Multi-Level Report shows details about the bill of materials, and lets you specify the number of levels to view. You can also choose whether to generate the report by expanding on only EBOM relationships, or on both EBOM and EBOM History relationships. The report is presented in table format.

Before you begin:

Access the Engineering BOM > EBOM tab for the part you want to view. See Part Bill of Materials.

  1. From the page Reports menu or toolbar, click Multi-Level Report.

    The Select Levels page opens.

  2. Type the number of levels you want to appear in the report, or click All Levels to see all parts and subassemblies included in the bill of materials.
  3. Select the Relationship:

    • Select EBOM and EBOM History to generate the report by expanding on both the EBOM and the EBOM History relationships.
    • Select EBOM to generate the report by expanding on the EBOM relationships.

  4. Click Done.

    The Multi-Level Bill of Materials Report page opens.

    The initial report will be sorted according to the levels displayed in the BOM structure.

    If sorting is done by Find Number, Ref Des, or any other column, it will sort depending on the level and column selected for sort (in combination).

    It contains the following columns:

    Column Description
    Level The number in the first column indicates the level of the item. All Level 1 items are top-level; all Level 2 items are subitems of the Level 1 item immediately above it.
    F/N Find Numbers are identifiers used on drawings as "bubble" callouts. Find Numbers are integer values (for example, 15, 9853).
    On premises only: Find Numbers are shown without leading zeros by default. However your Business Administrator can change this default. For details, see Engineering BOM Management Administration Guide:Configuring Find Number Properties.
    Qty The quantity of the selected part included in the BOM
    UOM LB (pound), IN (inch), GA (gallon), FT (feet), EA (each)
    Name Name of the part included in the BOM. Click any Name in this column to view the BOM Markup Detail page.
    Title The product name value that corresponds to the CATIA name.
    Revision Part revision number or code
    State The current state of the part in its lifecycle
    Type Part type or subtype
    Ref Des The Reference Designator ID is used on Printed Circuit Cards to indicate the location an electronic component is to be inserted. Reference Designators are usually values like R1, R2, R7, C1, or C5 (R for resistor and C for capacitor).

    The BOM can show Reference Designators as a single value (for example, R3), a comma-separated sequence of values (for example, R2, R3, R4), a range of values (for example, R3-R6), or a mix of all three types.

    The Reference Designator value is shown as it was entered when the BOM was created. You can use the format of Reference Designators to collapse or expand the BOM display. For details, see Part Bill of Materials.

    Description Details about the part
    EBOM History An icon is included in the row of any part that is connected with the EBOM History relationship. These are shown in the same row shading as the original part. For a given connected part, the revisions connected by the EBOM History relationship appear immediately below the revisions connected by the EBOM relationship.

    The EBOM history between a parent and child in the EBOM is not created if the parent and the child part are associated with the same change action for the requested change of "For Revise".

    Promoting a change action to In Work revises the parent and child parts. The change associates the new revision of the child with the new revision of the parent.

    The EBOM History is not required and manually associating the new revisions of the parent and child to each other is not required since both revisions occur with the same change action.

    Component Location Similar to Reference Designator, but is used to give additional location information and/or can be used by industries other than electronics. For example, it can be used to indicate which motor is failing all the time, the one by the window or the one by the furnace.

  5. You can use the filter in the upper right of the page to view the report in any of the following formats: Stored Format; Expanded Format; Delimited Roll-up Format; Range Roll-up Format. For details, see About BOM Formats.