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  • 1 Develop Products
    • Overview of Product Development
    • Overview of Innovation to Commercialization
  • 2 Business Objects and Structures
    • Overview of Product Development Business Objects
    • Overview of Structures
  • 3 Get Started
    • Information Tiles on Product Development Overview Page
    • Search
      • Search for Business Objects
      • Use Product Management Search
        • Search Region
        • Search Results
          • View Data Presence Indicators
          • Using Views in Product Management Search
          • Additional Features
          • Search Query Example
        • Search for Workflows, Approvals, and History
    • Product Lifecycle Management Navigator
    • Reports and Analytics
    • Use the Item Audit Trail
    • Audit Report on Change Orders
    • How to Use Clipboard
    • Use the Clipboard to Paste Items into a Change Order
    • Use Tasks Panel to Manage Business Objects
    • Use Reports and Analytics
  • 4 Items and Documents
    • Items and Documents in Product Development
    • View Item and Document Details
    • Find Attributes on Item Page
    • Take Action on Items and Documents
    • Review Item and Document Changes
    • Lifecycle Phases in Product Development
    • Considerations for Lifecycle Phases and Effective Dates
    • How Item Grade is Calculated
    • Configure Action Links to Items from Reports
    • Generate Item Structure Report
    • Considerations for Managing Flexfields in Items and Change Orders
    • FAQs About Items and Documents
      • Why can't I search for items across work areas?
      • How do I set the parameters used to calculate Item Grade?
      • What's the difference between the terms released and unreleased in the My Favorite Items information tile?
      • What's the difference between an item and a manufacturer part?
      • How do I configure the display of operational attributes in the Product Development work area?
      • Update UOM Values After Creating an Item
      • How can I quickly edit the details of an item attachment?
      • How can I promote or demote an item's lifecycle phase?
      • Can I change the lifecycle phase on an obsoleted item?
      • Will attachments I add in Product Development show up in Product Information Management?
  • 5 Documents
    • Create and Edit Documents
  • 6 Quality Management in Items
    • Overview of Quality Issues and Actions
    • Overview of Problem Reports and Corrective Actions
    • Create Problem Reports and Corrective Actions
    • Access Quality Objects from an Item Structure
    • Secure Access to Quality Issues and Actions
  • 7 Manufacturers and Manufacturer Parts
    • Overview of Manufacturers
    • Create a Manufacturer
    • Create Manufacturer
    • Create a Manufacturer Part
    • Create Manufacturer Part
    • Search for Manufacturers
    • Search for Manufacturer
    • Search for a Manufacturer Part
    • Where Used
    • Considerations for Managing AML
    • Secure Access to Manufacturers
    • Secure Access to Manufacturer Parts
    • Create Manufacturer Part Using Save As
    • Create OTBI Reports for Manufacturers and Items
    • FAQs About Approved Manufacturers List
      • How can I search for manufacturer parts based on specific attributes?
      • Why can't I add a manufacturer part to an item?
      • Will the approved manufacturers list (AML) I add in Product Development show up in Product Information Management?
      • What’s the difference between manufacturers and trading partners?
  • 8 Structures
    • Overview of Structures
    • Create Structures
    • Create an Item and Build an Item Structure
    • Structure Details
      • View and Edit Structure Details
        • Key Actions and Features on a Structure Page
        • Replace a Component
        • Track Replacements
        • Add Reference Designators on Items
        • Delete a Component
        • Manage Substitute Components
      • View Structures
      • View Revision-Specific Values for Items in Pending Revisions
      • Data for Change Orders Across Pending Item Revisions
      • Compare Structures
      • Perform Guided Task Flow to Mass Replace Components
    • Rules About Item Structures
    • Import an Item Structure
    • FAQs About Structures
      • How can I view the manufacturer parts used in an item structure?
      • How can I view attachments for all the components of an item structure?
      • How can I find out when the component is added and removed from the structure?
      • Why can't I modify the structure?
      • How can I reinstate a parent item in a structure that contains obsolete components?
      • Can I use a replaced component in another item?
      • How can I remove an obsoleted component from an item structure?
      • How can I compare different revisions of the same item?
      • How can I inform other users about my new item structure?
      • In a structure, how can I view the items available in an item class?
      • In a structure, how can I manage mismatches in lifecycle phase?
      • Why can't I access the item structure and edit its AML and attachments?
      • How can I update the effective date of a future-dated component through an import map?
      • Can I modify substitute components?
      • Why am I unable to view the Substitute For column in the structure details?
  • 9 Change Management
    • Overview of Change Orders and Change Requests
    • Define a Change Order
    • Create a Change Order and Submit it for Approval
    • Manage Change Orders and Change Requests
    • View and Edit Change Details
    • Edit Released Engineering Items
    • Modify Assignee
    • Take Action on Changes
    • Change Order Details Report
    • Add or Remove Participants from Future Status
    • Add or Remove Participants in Current Status
    • Cancel Change Lines
    • Move Change Lines
    • Understand Role Expansion in Change Orders
    • Edit Reference Designators on Changes
    • Manage Tasks in Change Orders and Change Requests
    • Secure Access to Changes
    • View Change History
    • Impact Analysis in Change Orders
    • Change Order Notifications
    • Notifications
    • Publish Change Orders
    • View Published Change Order Reports
    • Use a Change Order to Redline an Item Structure
    • Use a Change Order to Add a Manufacturer Part to an Item
    • How Application Validates Change Assignee
    • What actions can I take as an assignee on a pending change?
    • How Revision is Calculated for Engineering Change Orders
    • How Item Approval Privilege is Validated at Role Level
    • FAQs About Change Management
      • How do I add an item or document as an affected object?
      • What's the difference between an affected object and a change line?
      • How can I create a new change order based on an existing change order?
      • What's the difference between Withdraw and Remove?
      • How can I view the list of change orders that are on hold or canceled?
      • How do I add items or documents to an existing change order?
      • What's the difference between cancel and terminate actions in a change order?
      • Why am I unable to modify the change order?
      • Where can I approve or reject a change order?
      • How can I edit a pending revision in the context of a change order?
      • Why am I unable to edit the change order?
      • Can I modify the find number when the item is on a change order?
      • How can I find out who acted on a change order and the changes they made?
      • Why did the change order approval prompt for a comment and password?
      • How can I restart the change order workflow which is on hold when the approval is in progress?
      • What's the difference between an engineering change order and change request?
      • Why did the Scheduled change order get promoted automatically?
      • Why did the change order fail on approval?
      • Why am I unable to add or remove approvers during the change order approval?
      • How can I add roles as approvers or reviewers while approvals are in progress?
      • Why did the change order workflow restart automatically?
      • How can I remove a participant from the change workflow?
      • How can I do a bulk upload of change order attachments?
      • Why am I unable to update the task status in the change order?
      • How many objects can I add to a change order or new item request?
      • Can I set a default priority for my change order or new item request?
      • What actions can I take on a change order when it's in the Completed status?
      • In a change type, can I configure additional controls for the Draft status?
      • How can I know whether the entire change order (or new item request) was rejected or if a few items were rejected?
      • How can I set the reason code field on a change as a required field?
      • Where are the change header attributes and change descriptive flexfield attributes displayed?
      • How do I know whether my approval is required or optional for a change order?
      • Why should I claim the change order approval?
      • Can I create a change order without adding affecting objects?
      • Can I configure extensible flexfields for a change order?
      • Why am I unable to edit the extensible flexfields on the change order?
  • 10 Affected Objects and Redlines
    • View Affected Objects and Change Operations
    • Redlines in Change Orders
    • Effective Date and Revision for Affected Objects
    • Resolve Revision Conflicts
    • FAQs About Affected Objects and Redlines
      • How do I know whether an affected object has redlines?
      • Can I edit context specific attributes (or descriptive flexfields) on a change order?
  • 11 Workflows
    • Workflows in Product Development
    • Define a Workflow
    • Review the Change Order Workflow
    • Approve or Reject a Workflow
    • Rejection Reasons for Workflows
    • Terminate and Restart a Workflow
    • Generate Change Approval Summary Using Generative AI
    • FAQs About Workflows
      • What's the difference between One and All in an Approval type status?
      • How can I learn of problems with the statuses in my change order's workflow?
      • Why is the change order workflow status in the wrong place in the order sequence?
      • Why did the change order go back to the Open status when rejected from the Approval status?
      • Why can't I promote or reschedule a change order I created using an import map?
  • 12 Workflows—New
    • Create and Edit Workflows
    • Perform Guided Task Flow to Mass Replace Approvers or Assignees
  • 13 Relationships
    • Relationships in Items and Documents
    • Relationships in Change Orders
    • Relationship Rules for Changes, Problem Reports, and Corrective Actions
  • 14 Attachments
    • Manage Attachments in Items and Change Orders
    • Considerations for Managing Attachments in Items and Change Orders
    • FAQs About Attachments
      • How do I attach files to an item or change?
      • Why can't I attach files to an item or document?
      • How can I view redlined attachments for a change order?
      • Will attachments I add in Product Development show up in Product Information Management?
  • 15 Roll Up Costs
    • Overview of Cost Rollups in Product Development
    • Display Costs in Product Development
    • Business and Validation Rules
    • FAQs About Roll Up Costs
      • Can an item's material cost be edited, even if it is retrieved from costing?
      • Can a cost be specific to a revision?
      • Does costing capture revision specific costs of items?
      • What happens if an item with a material cost becomes a structure?
      • Can costs be redlined through a change order?
      • What formula is used to calculate total cost?
      • What happens if the Inventory Cost Organization of an item is changed to another organization?
  • 16 Manage Objects from Supplier Portal
    • View Items on Supplier Portal
    • Create Problem Reports and Corrective Actions
    • View Changes on Supplier Portal
    • Submit Change Requests from Supplier Portal
    • Publish Change Orders from Supplier Portal
  • 17 Analyze Objects with OTBI
    • Why Use OTBI Reports
    • Use Predefined OTBI Dashboards for Changes and Items
    • Publish Items for Analysis in OTBI
    • FAQs About OTBI
      • How can I add the publish date and time in a report?
  • 18 New Item Requests
    • Overview of New Item Requests
    • New Item Request Process