View Affected Objects and Change Operations

The Affected Objects page provides the following views:

• Redline Summary

• Manage Affected Objects

You can toggle between the Redline Summary View and the Manage Affected Objects view.

Redline Summary View

Displays links to Affected Objects and Change Operations.

Affected Objects provides a summary of redlines for each object. For instance, when you replace a component, the summary tab shows that the original component redlined and the replacement component in green (which is different from the initial color).

Change Operations provides a detailed list of modifications that have been done during the progress of a change order.

If you modify both an attribute of an affected object and its structure, two change operations are displayed in this view.

Change operations are recorded on items, AMLs, structures, attachments, and reference designators.

The table shows the change operations recorded on object types.

Object	Change Operations Recorded
Item and Attachment	Modifications
Structure	Modifications and withdrawals
Reference Designator	Additions, withdrawals, and modifications.

Manage Affected Objects View

To perform an action on affected objects, select the affected objects and click the Actions drop-down list.

Note: When you update an affected object directly on the item page, a message appears informing you to use an existing change order or create a new one to update the item.

Here are some additional details about affected objects:

• The presence of a Has Redlines icon (or a red dot icon) against an affected object indicates that the item has redlines.

• To filter a large list of affected objects, you can use Query by Example.

• View Scheduling and Activation Reports: You can view the process ID of the change order scheduling and activation processes; it includes hyperlinks to reports in the first 72 hours of report generation. Later on, only the IDs appear.

• View Additional Item Details:

  In the Affected Objects table, each item appears with an information icon (orange triangle) to indicate that additional information is available. You can click it to bring up a panel with details such as item name, class name, description, status code, revision code, and primary UOM. You can also drill down directly to item details using the hyperlinks in this panel without losing the change context.

• Fill in Attributes:
  You can quickly replicate a just-modified attribute or attributes in the Affected Objects tables on change orders, change requests, problem reports, and corrective actions. To do so, use the following actions:

  • Fill Up (Ctrl+U)

  • Fill Down (Ctrl+D)
  • Fill Selected (Ctrl+S)

  For example, you modified the value of an attribute, but you have more items with the same attribute that need the same change.

  To populate similar changes in a consecutive range of rows, use actions Fill Up (Ctrl+U), and Fill Down (Ctrl+D). Remember that you’ve to select the table cell and modify the value in the cell for Fill Down and Fill Up to work.

  To populate changes in nonconsecutive rows, select the required rows and then select Fill Selected (Ctrl+S) from the actions menu.

Freeze Structure Columns on Change Orders

You can select and freeze a single column or a group of columns on the change affected objects structure table. This enables you to easily work with data in large item structures and review different parameters against the item number while retaining the context of the frozen column. Note that you can only scroll through the columns to the right of the frozen columns or scroll through the columns that come after the frozen columns.

You can't freeze individual columns within an attribute group (for example, Component Details, Purchasing); you must select the complete attribute group. This is applicable on the structure view of commercial items and on the structure view of affected objects on changes. Here's how you freeze a column:

• Click the Affected Objects tab on the change order and then click the item.
• Click the Structure tab of that item.
• Select the column you want to freeze and click Freeze.