View Structures

You can create an item from the Product Management work area and build a structure or search for a structure and view the structure details with the component details appearing in a side panel.

Navigate to Product Management work area.
From the Product Management Home page, you can click Items from Actions or click the Product Management Search Page, and select Items from the Product Management Search drop-down list.

You can create a structure by either selecting and adding existing items or creating new items. Here's how you create a structure:

Open the item and navigate to the Structure tab.
Click the … button and click Create Structure.
In the New item structure panel that appears, select any one of the options:
- Create new-using the Create new option, you can add Structure Name, Structure Description and the required details in Additional details field and click Apply.
- Create from existing-using Create from existing option, you can either choose an existing structure or a new structure and fill in the required details and click Apply.
- Create from common-using the Create from common option, you can either choose an existing structure or a new structure and fill in the required details and click Apply.

Note: You can’t add a parent component to a child component. This applies to both preliminary structures and affected item structures on engineering and commercialization change orders.

When you search for structures, you can view structure presence indicators (structure icon) that let you access the item structure from the search results

Structure Grid

In the Redwood page, when you navigate to an item and the structure tab within it, you can create a new structure, modify the header structure, and delete an existing structure. After you create the header, you can build and modify the single-level structure by adding one or more components using the search and select icon in the toolbar. You can drag and drop or (select and move) items from the clipboard or spotlight in the navigator. After you add the components, you can modify the following:

Component level attributes
Component descriptive flexfields
Reference designators
Substitute components

When you select the component in the item picker, you can:

Refine your search using filter chips
Multi-select the item components to add
Search and select the components to add to a structure and perform a search for another component. You can also select a saved search.

Note:

To save your search in the item picker, you must first perform your search, apply the filters, then save your search as personal or system search.

You can choose to view the entire structure or focus on specific levels and use additional indicators to explore subassemblies.

Points to Consider

If you haven't created a structure, you must first create the structure header. This enables the edit capabilities in the grid. Example: You must create a primary structure to add components.
The primary structure is the default structure view when you navigate to the structure tab. If you've only created an alternate structure and not created a primary structure, you can see a 'No data to display' message when you navigate to the structure tab. Select the alternate structure from the drop-down list to view the components.

After you add the components, double-click the cell to modify the component level attributes and the component descriptive flexfields. To edit and modify the component descriptive flexfield, double-click the descriptive flexfield attribute cell which will open the side panel. When you drag and drop (select and move) an item, remember that only the item is copied and not the structure child entities like component level attributes, reference designators, and substitute components.

Note: Item is editable only in Single level view and not Multi-level view.

You can right-click the component row to use the copy and paste attributes or use the keyboard shortcuts CTRL+C and CTRL+V for the same. You can only copy and paste the attributes that are edited inline and not the ones edited in the side panel. If you copy consecutive cells that are read-only, only the editable cells will have its values pasted.

You can add individual components or sub-assemblies to the Spotlight displayed in the Navigator for that transaction. After adding the components, you can (select and move) drag and drop them from the spotlight to another structure. The drag and drop feature is also supported from the clipboard. Select the items by selecting the checkboxes and drag (select and move) them to the structure tab. Use the Replace action to replace one component with another.

Note:

The Replace action is enabled only on a row that isn't modified, added, or deleted.
When you initiate the Replace action, before saving, the row—including reference designators, substitute components, and descriptive flexfields—is read-only.

Here are some actions you can perform from the structure grid:

View the basic details of the component on the header, including the lifecycle phase of the item and the revision.
Create, modify, and delete the structure header.
Create, modify, and delete the component and its child entities in the structure.
Replace a component with another component.
Select different views created by your administrator through Configure Views. The view can contain item operational attributes, item extensible flexfields, component level attributes, or component descriptive flexfields.
Toggle between the first level and level view.
View the levels displayed on a structure.
View the progress indicator when the data is loading.
Apply filters on the structure (filter supports item and item description).
Export the selected columns and rows or all.
Detach the table to view in full screen mode.
Add component items to the clipboard and spotlight.
Drag and drop from the clipboard and spotlight.
View the total count of rows in the structure and the number of selected rows.
Hide and unhide columns.
Resize rows and columns.
Sort columns in an ascending or descending order.
Select multiple rows, columns, or cells.

You can also add or modify reference designators and substitute components of a component which are additional attributes available in the structure grid. Use these attributes in existing views or to create new views. Select and click the data presence indicator on the reference designator and substitute component columns of a structure to view details in the side panel drawer. Separate tabs are available for reference designators and substitute components. Global descriptive flexfields are always visible for both reference designators and substitute components in the side panel drawer. You can’t modify the reference designator descriptive flexfields in Redwood. You can only update them in the classic user interface.

To add reference designators, double-click the empty reference designator cell, which will open the side panel. You can add a range, if the range indicator is configured in Manage Item Structure Type Details task, and comma separated values. For more details, see Configure Reference Designator Options

Quantity Related: validates the component quantity against the reference designator values.
Align Quantity: automatically calculates the quantity based on the number of reference designators and displays it in the quantity column for the component.

Search for the structure component based on the reference designator. However, remember to include the Reference Designator Search attribute in the views you create to search for components using the reference designator.

After you add the reference designators, you must click Apply so that they appear in the table. Modify the description by selecting the pencil icon in each row. You can navigate to the next component using the navigator icons in the side panel and click the pencil icon to enable the edit mode. To modify an existing reference designator, double-click the cell to navigate to the side panel and the pencil icon to switch to edit mode. You can only delete reference designators in the Details area of the side panel for reference designators.

Note:

If you’ve configured range indicators for reference designators before 24D, you must run the Product Management Search Ingest Job.

Use the Enterprise Scheduler Service job: Product Management Search Ingest Job to ingest the new range indicator and replace the existing range indicator:

Ingest Object = Item Structure
Object Type = Reference Designators
From Date = Enter a date
To Date = You can select the current date

After this job is completed, the Enterprise Scheduler Service job to run Bulk ingest to OSCS job starts automatically. When both jobs are completed, the range indicator will show the latest selected range indicator.

If the range indicator is enabled, you can see the configuration for quantity and the reference designators with the range indicator in the reference designator tab.

To add substitute components and descriptive flexfields, double-click the component cell which will open the side panel. To modify and delete components, click the pencil icon next to the substitute component. You can search for the structure component based on the substitute component.

Side Panel View in a Structure

The drawer appears when you click the presence indicators on the rows of a structure and provides you more information about the structure (component details). You can quickly navigate to the next or previous component row details without closing the drawer using the navigation buttons displayed in the drawer region.

Here’s the data you can view and actions you can take from the drawer:

In Product Development	In Product Information Management	Actions
Item Revision Attachments	Item Attachments Item Revision Attachments Item Revision Attachments	Download attachments
Pending Changes	Pending Changes	Navigate to change orders or change requests
Quality	Quality	Navigate to open quality issues, quality actions, problem reports, and corrective actions
Product Development Relationships	NA	Navigate to related objects created in the Product Development work area
AML	NA	Navigate to manufacturer parts
Reference Designators	NA	View details of the reference designator. Search for specific reference designators
Substitute Components	NA	View details of substitute components

Notes on the side panel view:

Has Pending Change: Displays only pending change orders and change requests, not the released changes.
Has Quality Issue: Displays pending quality issues, quality actions, problem reports, and corrective actions.
Has Relationships: Displays relationships added through the Product Development work area. When you click the concept component or the requirement specification that you added as a related object, the parent concept or requirement opens.
Has Item Attachment: Displays attachments that you can download. You must select only a single row to download attachments. Selecting multiple rows will disable the Download button.
Has Reference Designators: Displays all the details of reference designators. You can even search for specific reference designators.
Has Substitute Components: Displays all the details of substitute components.