Owning Organization Participants
Parts or documents created within an organization context are automatically owned by the organization participant associated with the organization context. However, the site can choose to allow users to specify a different organization participant, such as one associated with an external vendor or supplier, as the owner of an object. For example, if a part used in a part structure is acquired from a vendor, you can create an organization participant for that vendor, and select that vendor’s organization participant as the owning organization for the part.
To change the out-of-the-box functionality so that a user who creates a part or document can specify which organization participant owns the part or document, you must do the following things:
• Enable the appropriate preferences to display the owning organization on objects, using the Preference Management utility:
◦ Expose Organization -- Displays the organization for all objects except change objects.
◦ Expose Organization for Change Management Objects -- Displays the organization for change objects. The Expose Organization preference must also be enabled.
• Configure the context where the parts or documents will reside so that the user enters the part or document number (rather than having the numbers auto-generated). How to turn off autonumbering is described in
Changing Numbering Schemes.
An alternative to having the user enter the part of document number is to set up object initialization rules for parts and documents that automatically set different numbers depending on the owning organization.