# Item Management

## How to ...

| In the examples is assumed, that you are familiar with the general operation functions of Agile e6 (see Getting Started)
| The ball pen project: This project explains the acquisition and creation of a Ball Pen using Agile e6. The item (=product) Ball Pen consists of the items shown below.
| In order to work through the following example the system administrator should have created the following materials:
Material ID | Material Name
PVC | Polyvinylchloride
66Si7 | Spring Steel, alloyed
| See Manager Information for Creating Material

Create and Edit an Item

- Create an Item
- Display the History of an Item

Item Master

- Show the Item Master
- Change the Item Master
- Assign Units of Measure (Item Master)
- Define Unit Conversion

Change and Display the Item Status and the Item Revision

- Change the Item Status
- Create a new Item Revision
- Display Predecessor of an Item
- Display Successor of an Item
- Delete the Item Revision

Signing Items

- Sign an Item
- Reviewing the Item Signature

Reserving Items

- Reserve an Item
- Display the Item Reservation
- Remove the Item Reservation

Assign Objects to an Item

- Assign a Document to an Item
- Assign Persons to an Item
- Assign a Company to an Item
- Assign a Substitute to an Item
- Create a Raw Material/Manufactured Item Relation
- Assign an External to an Internal Item
- Add an Item to a Folder
- Assign a Note to an Item
- Assign a Context and a DDID to an Item
- Create Geometrical Relations
- Assign (Additional) Materials to an Item

The following examples will only turn out the displayed results if the items have been assigned to the appropriate objects before and the required licences for the object are available in Agile e6. The functions are for information purposes only; the record cannot be edited. The application examples describe how to make the assignments (e.g. Document management, Workflow, etc.).

Display the Item Usage

- Display the Assignement of an Item to a Project
- Display a Substitute
- Display the Assignment of an Item to a Folder
- Display the Assignment of an Item to a Work Request or Work Order
- Display an Item in a Process Plan
- Display an Item in Resources in Operations
- Display an Item for a Process State

Classifying an Item

- Create General Item Properties
- Assign a Concrete Item Property to the General Properties
- Display the Assignment of an Item to a Class
- Display the Class

Send an Item per E-mail

- Send an Item as an E-mail
- Send E-mail to a Person Assigned to an Item