Design Changes

You can view changes that occur to a design history file. These are changes resulting from Change Management objects, such as change actions, change orders, and change requests. Also shown are engineering change objects from the Product Line Management app. Listing design changes assists in DHF management, traceability, and in regulatory reporting.

To access this page:

  1. In the navigation pane for a design project, click Bookmarks.
  2. Click the Design Changes tab.

Some information such as Severity, State, Description, Approvers and Last Modified will be pulled from the change request when the change order is not yet available. In other cases, this information is available from the Engineering Change object.

This topic describes:

Columns

NameDescription
NameThe name of the affected item. Each row represents changes made on an affected item in the design input and design output bookmarks in the design project.
Type The type of object.
Rev The revision ID of the object.

This icon displays when a higher revision exists for a document.
Title The title of the object.
State The lifecycle state of the object.
Owner The owner of the object.
Description The object description.
Project The name of the design project for the listed affected items that are connected through design input and design output bookmarks.
Design Element The name of the design element for the bookmark which contains this affected item.
ChangeThe remaining columns describe the changes.
OrderThe name of the change order. If an engineering change object exists for an affected item, this column displays the engineering change object name.
StateThe lifecycle state of the change order.
ActionThe name of the change action.
RequestThe name of the change request.
SevThe severity of the change.
DescriptionThe description of the change order.
Approvers The names of the approvers.

For a change order, the approval route template can be associated to the change order as an approver list. In this case, the approver route template members (task assignees) become the approvers for this change order.

For a change request, the review route template can be associated to the change request as the reviewer list. In this case, the review route template members (task assignees) become the reviewers for this change request.

If you have "read" access on these route templates you will be able to see these approvers/reviewers in the Approvers column.

Last ModifiedThe date on which the change order was last modified. The default sort for the table is descending date order with the latest changes on top.