How can I change an item to an engineering item?

If you create items in the Product Information Management work area, and later change the value of the Engineering Item attribute for the items to Yes, then you can manage the items in the Product Development work area.

You can also use these items as components within a bill of materials.

An item created in the Product Development work area becomes an engineering item, and the value of its Engineering Item attribute is Yes. If you didn't create the item in the Product Development work area, then you can't update the value of the Engineering Item attribute in the Product Information Management work area, but you can update the value by one of these methods:

• Import map

  In an import map, map your source data column for updating the Engineering Item attribute to the following column in the Master Data table:

  • Attribute group: Main

  • Attribute: Engineered

  • Internal Name: ENGINEERED_ITEM_FLAG

  • Data Type and Length: VARCHAR2(1)

  • Column Value: Y or N

• File-based data import (FBDI)

  In a file-based data import template, enter your upload data for updating the Engineering Item attribute in the following column:

  • XLSM template: ItemImportTemplate.xlsm

  • Worksheet: EGP_SYSTEM_ITEMS_INTERFACE

  • Transaction Type: UPDATE

  • Column header: Engineered Item Flag

  • Column value: Y or N

• Items Version 2 REST resource

  In your call to the Items Version 2 REST resource, specify the value for the EngineeredItemFlag parameter:

  • Method: PATCH

  • Path:/fscmRestApi/resources/11.13.18.05/itemsV2/{itemsV2UniqID}

  • Body parameter: EngineeredItemFlag

  • Parameter value: true or false

  • Example of JSON request body (partial):

    {
    ...
        "EngineeredItemFlag": true,
    ...
    },