Administration: Repairing the Site Ownership of Objects

You can repair the site ownership of an object that is being exchanged by forcing it to the Local or Distant status.

The Display Site Information command of the Exchange Management app enables you to entirely recover a coherent site ownership situation between the exchanging repositories after accidental scenarios using global repair methodology. You can go back to the original status of the object at any time.

You can also do this using the Repair Site Ownership Tool of the batch utility. For more information, see Social and Collaborative: Global Design Management: Collocation Data Exchange: Understanding Data Exchange: Working with Repair Site Ownership. When the Repair Site Ownership command is launched from the batch, only the selected object is taken as input for the command. When it is launched from another workbench, all visible objects are taken as input for the command. Therefore, there can be different behaviors depending on where you launched the command from.

Required access role: Administrator.

Note: You must have the VIC - Collocation Data Exchange license to repair the site ownership of objects.

Before you begin: Open the object in the Exchange Management app.

Environment: On premises only

  1. Select an object.
  2. From the 3D XML section of the action bar, click Display Site Information .
    The following elements appear:
    • A PLM label displaying the site information for the selected object.
    • The Site Information dialog box.
    • The B.I. Essentials panel with the different possible site ownership statuses. For more information, see Working with Immersive Site Ownership.
  3. To specify whether to apply the operation to all the children of the selected object, select or clear the Propagate operation to all children option in the Site Information dialog box.
  4. In the PLM label, click either Force to Local or Force to Distant.

    The following table lists the available operations depending on the original site ownership status of the selected object:

    Object StatusAvailable Operations
    Force to LocalForce to Distant
    Delegated
    Local
    Exchanged
    Delegator
    Forward
    Distant
    Notes:
    • To go back to the original status of the object after a Force operation, click Cancel Force to Local or Cancel Force to Distant in the PLM label.
    • To repair the site ownership of another object, select it in the tree or in the work area. The PLM label is automatically updated with the site information for the selected object.

    The site ownership status of the object is modified in the PLM label and in the tree.
  5. Click OK in the Site Information dialog box to save the modifications in the database.

The site ownership status of the selected object is forced to Local or to Distant.