View and Edit Structure Details—Classic

To view the structure component details in a side panel, select a component row on the structure tab of the item.

You can enter the following component details from the side panel: reference designator, additional information, attachments, AML, additional attributes, and substitute components.

The header of the side panel shows the name of the selected component. You can move from one component row to another, and use the side panel to navigate easily between the component details.

Note:

You can edit a component from the item structure page, if it's not assigned to any change order.
You can edit reference designators using the side panel, if your administrator has set the Reference Designator Range Indicator to None. Otherwise you can edit them directly in the structure table.
If you have added a component to a common structure associated with one or more organizations, and one of those organizations became inactive, the assignment to the inactive organization is skipped, and this information is recorded in the log file.

Icons on Component Rows

The pencil icon in a column indicates that there's additional information that you can view. You can click the icon to navigate to the corresponding tab in the side panel view.

The following icons appear only if you've opted in for the feature User Interface Improvements for Items and Changes.

A blue dot icon in any of the following columns of a component row - attachments, AML, substitute components, pending changes, and quality - indicates the presence of content. Click the dot icon to navigate to the corresponding tab in the side panel view.
For quality-related data, the blue dot appears if there’s at least one quality issue, quality action, problem report, or corrective action in any workflow status against any item revision. If no issues or actions appear against the item you've chosen, select other revisions and see which ones have issues or actions logged against them. With problem reports and actions, you can see them across all revisions of the item.
In the redline view of the affected item’s structure, the reference designator, and substitute component icons appear in blue when there are redlines.

Note: The structure component attachments, AML, additional attributes, pending changes, and quality tabs on the side panel appear in the read-only mode on engineering change orders.

In the following image, you can see the blue dot icon in the Changes column indicating the presence of content in it. You can click the blue dot to open the Changes side tab for the selected component. Blue dot icons indicating the presence of content in the Changes tab

Points to Consider

The affected item's structure tab on a commercialization change order doesn't include side panel tabs for attachments, or AML. It also doesn’t have the blue dot icons for Pending Changes or Quality related data.
Pending Changes and Quality side panel tabs aren't displayed in the Supplier Portal.

Find Number

You can differentiate duplicate components in an assembly using the Find Number attribute.

The find number identifies a specific instance of an item in a structure. When a duplicate component is added, the application will automatically increment the find number, but you can modify it before you save your changes. Once the item is saved, here’s how you can change the find number:

Delete the component and add it again with the new find number.

Use the Replace action to replace a component with the same component and provide a different find number.

Example: Consider that a server containing 4 similar processors is positioned at the same level in the structure. Each instance of the processor will have a unique find number. This will allow you to have duplicate instances at the same level in the BOM, and differentiate each instance.

Here are some additional details:

You'll be prevented from creating duplicate find numbers for Model and Option Classes. The Find Number column will be displayed and defaulted to 1. Also, you can't add the duplicate component row.
You can't create overlapping effectivity dates for the combination of component and find number.

You must ensure that the date range of the duplicate component is outside the date range of the initial component. Note that the date range is calculated based on the start and end dates of the component.
Attributes such as Quantity, Basis Type, and Supply Type can have a different value in the duplicate row. Similarly, structure entities such as substitute components and reference designators can also have a different value in the duplicate row.
Find Numbers are automatically incremented when you add duplicate components in the user interface, but not when you update structures using REST services or import.
In the item structure import, if the find number value isn’t provided, it will be defaulted to 1. If you have a duplicate instance of the component in your structure, you must provide a unique find number value in import. In the absence of the unique find number, the import will create a single component with the find number value defaulted to 1 and the other components won’t be created. This is applicable for REST APIs and SOAP Services as well.
If you perform a Replace action to update the New Find Number value using import, it’s recommended not to import changes to other attributes in the same import batch.

Here are the best practices and recommendations:

All existing and new customers should use Item Sequence for sequencing the structure. It’s recommended not to use Find Number for sequencing of the structure. Find number should only be used to include duplicate components in a structure.
Agile PLM customers migrating to Oracle Fusion Cloud should map Agile PLM Find Number to Item Sequence.
CAD integration customers should map Agile PLM Find Number to Item Sequence.
Agile PLM MCAD customers using the find number feature must map Find Number to structure component descriptive flexfields.

Suggested Operation Sequence

You can use the Suggested Operation Sequence column to record a design engineer's suggestion for the operation sequence of components in a manufacturing work definition. This doesn't have a default value and isn’t automatically incremented.

Note: Suggested operation sequence isn’t a required value.

Example: In an assembly that includes 3 components, you can suggest an operation sequence for component A as 1, component B as 2, and component C as 3. The manufacturing team can refer to this to specify a sequence for assembly of components (in the manufacturing work definition).