Using B.I. Essentials for Product Assignment Status

You can use Product Assignment Status to manage the assignment of products to items. Product nodes in the tree are colored according to the product assignment status: not assigned, assigned, and so on. Products can be assigned by dragging and dropping tree nodes onto item tiles.

Before you begin: Open the item to which you want to assign the products.
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Customization of Information Items
  1. From the Tools section of the action bar, click B.I. Essentials .
    The B.I. Essentials list appears.
  2. Click Product Assignment Status from the list.

    Colored squares are displayed in the tree in front of each product node according to a color code. See Using B.I. Essentials in Manufactured Item Definition.

    If no Item-Product scope is defined, all product nodes are Non-assignable as indicated by the gray squares.





  3. Create a Item-Product scope between the root product and the root Manufacturing Assembly.
    The root product appears, in transparent mode, on the root Manufacturing Assembly tile.

    The statuses of the child products become Not assigned, as indicated by the orange squares.



    Note: the status of the root product node is Associated with scope, as indicated by the green square.

  4. Drag and drop the Engine_Product product node from the tree to the upper left Manufacturing Assembly tile as shown in the image below.

    An implement link is created and the product node now has status Assigned directly, with a light blue square. The child product nodes, with dark blue squares, have status Assigned indirectly because they are implicitly assigned to the manufacturing assembly.





  5. Drag and drop the CHAIN product node from the tree to the upper right Manufacturing Assembly tile as shown in the image below. This is a child of the Bar_Product product node, which is an assignable node in the tree.


    This product now has status Assigned directly, with a light blue square. Its parent product remains Not assigned. It can be assigned, for example, by an item that has a different effectivity. The statuses of the other child products on the same level are also Not assigned.