User Help > Tracking Changes With PTC RV&S Items > Creating an Item > To create an item
To create an item
Task
Procedure
Create an item
In the GUI, select one of the following:
• Item > Create
• File > New > Item
Then select an item type.
In the Web interface’s Items view, select Create Item,. Then, select an item type and click OK.
Fill out the necessary fields in the item. As soon as you add information, an asterisk (*) displays in the title bar, indicating there is unsaved information in the item. This information is not committed to the database until you click Apply or OK. Once you click Apply or OK, the status bar indicates that the information is being committed to the database, and an ID is assigned to the item.
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• In the GUI, you can also create an item when editing items inline from the Items and Relationships views. For more information on inline creation of items from the Items view, see Editing Items in the Items Pane and Item Details Pane (GUI Only).
• You can also select Create item type.
• Press INSERT to create an item in the GUI or Web interface.
• In the Web interface, you can also click the Create field in the title pane and select the item type to create.
Commit the item information to the database and resume entering additional information
Click Apply. The status bar indicates that the information is being committed to the database, and the New/Create item view becomes an Edit item view.
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• Each Apply operation is added to the item history.
• When you commit item information to the database, fields in the item dynamically update based on relevance and editability rules. This means that what you can see and do in the item may change.
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