About User Exit

This section explains how to use knowledge rules to customize the valuation of the public and writable PLM Components attributes when creating them at import, and how to customize the file reference attributes while exporting them.

This page discusses:

  • This opening is based on knowledge rules.
  • These PLM Components can be References or Representation References.
  • The User Exit mechanism provided is based on knowledge scripts, with a default behavior both while importing and exporting.
  • You can override these default behaviors by rules provided for each customization, using the PLM Opening ID dedicated to the valuation of attributes at import or export as PLMImportExportAttributesValuation value.

At Import

New PLM components are created at import. PLM attributes are generated from File information, as follows:

  • The value of V_Name attribute is the File Reference ID.
  • The values of the other PLM attributes are default value.

At Export

You are proposed this opening in export command to customize the file attributes valuation.

  • User Exit gives you the opportunity to export PLM references in a given context as a customization.
  • All public PLM attributes of the Component can be used to pre-valuate the File Reference ID.
  • The File Reference ID is valuated from the visible attribute, either V_Name or PLM_ExternalID.