Item Revisions

When you create an item, a default revision is automatically created. Also, you can create item revisions based on item definition changes. Generally, if there is a change in the form, fit, and function for an item, then a new revision is automatically created.

You can capture revision level changes using revision level attributes. To use revision level attributes, you have to create a new revision.

Item revisions are specific to the organization the item is assigned to. So, the same item can have 10 revisions in Organization A and only 5 revisions in Organizations B. In Product Hub, when you create a revision, you must specify an effective date. The effective date of a new revision also signifies the end date of the prior revision. Therefore, at a given time only one revision can be effective.

Item-revision-level attributes can have different values for different revisions. However, item structures aren't revision specific. If the start and end dates of the structure components match with the start and end dates of an item revision, then item structures act as revision-effective structures. Revision-effective structures are structures that are valid from a start revision to an end revision. You can also create an item revision in the context of a change order. In such cases, the new item revision becomes effective when you implement the change order.

In Product Development, you can create item revisions only in the context of a change order.