Filtering the View to Show/Hide Inactive Engineering Status and Evolved Configuration

You can select a filter view mode to display or hide inactive instances and instances with an evolved configuration.

In this filtered view, you can show or hide:

Instances with an inactive engineering status,
Evolved instances (i.e. the instances that have been split to change their configuration).
Important: Evolved instances cannot be selected. To apply the commands below, you must select their parent node.

The filter can be applied in the current view or in a new window, by re-opening the product structure.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Open a structure with:

Instances with an inactive engineering status.
Configured instances. Then, evolve these instances.
See Evolving a Configured Instance for more about splitting instances with configuration.

Filter the Current View

You can filter a product in your current view.

Select the root structure.
From the Tools section of the action bar, click Filter .
In the Filter dialog box, select the convenient options:
- Show instance with inactive engineering status
  By default, this option is cleared.
- Show instances for all configurations after evolve instance operation
  By default, this option is selected.

The filter is applied on the current window.

In the tree, a Filter mask is applied on the root node of the filtered product.

You can open the structure in a new window, with a filter applied on it.

Right-click the root structure and select Open and Filter in New Window.
In the Filter dialog box, select the convenient options:
- Show instance with inactive engineering status
  By default, this option is cleared.
- Show instances for all configurations after evolve instance operation
  By default, this option is selected.

The product opens in a new window and a filter is applied in this new window.

In the tree, this mask is applied on the root node.