Windchill PartsLink: Classification Search Integrated with Advanced Search
Product: Windchill PartsLink
Release: 11.0 F000
Benefit
The Classification Search utility has been fully integrated with the core Windchill advanced search.
Additional Details
You can now use the WindchillAdvanced Search page to search for classification parts using node and attribute values. Previously, you could specify classification nodes in the Criteria field; however, if you wanted to search for classification parts using attribute values, you had to use the Refine Search table that was only available from a separate Classification Search utility.
When an applicable part type is selected, a new Classification field appears in the Advanced Search window. Use this field to specify one or more classification nodes:
Once a node is specified, the criteria selection menu refreshes to include relevant attributes:
• The Classification field does not appear if the Type field includes ineligible object types.
• The node name field supports predictive search:
• If you specify more than one node, they are joined using an AND operator.
As part of this enhancement, classification search results now appear in the core Search Results table. Previously, classification searches appeared in a separate Classification Search Results table.
To support this change, the Search Results table is now compatible with classification attributes:
• You can create custom table views that include classification attribute columns. This is restricted to searches that only use one classification attribute and corresponding node value.
• You can use the new search facets utility to filter by classification nodes and attributes. For more information, see
Search: Faceted Results • You can also launch the Find Similar Parts search action from the right-click actions menu.
To browse through classification parts, you can use the enhanced classification explorer available from the WindchillNavigator.
