Configuring Part Relationships
Servigistics InService supports the following types of relationships between parts:
• Supersession
• Alternate
• Cross Reference
• Supplementary
• Kit
By default, only supersession and alternate relationships are supported. If you want to support additional types of part relationships, you must update the INSERVICE_HOME\InS_SW\SW\3C.properties file. In that file is a property named relationTypes where you configure the supported part relationships. Following is an excerpt from this file showing the property:
Add additional part relationships to the relationTypes property in a comma separated list with no spaces. Use the following options to represent the part relationships in the file:
• supersession
• alternate
• x-ref
• supplementary
• kit
For example, if you want to add the kit relationship then you would update the property as follows:
relationTypes=supersession,alternate,kit
Note that you must restart your servers after updating the 3C.properties file for the change to take effect.