Configuring Visibility of Equivalent Status Indicators for Common Enterprise Data Objects in Downstream View
The equivalent status indicator appears for common enterprise data (CED) objects in downstream view of MAPSB. You can configure the visibility of the equivalent status indicators of the CED objects in downstream view of MAPSB. To do so, an administrator must configure the com.ptc.windchill.associativity.enableEquivalenceManagementForCED property to specify true or false.
This property can be found in associativity.properties.xconf located at<Windchill>/wcmod/modules/Associative/src/com/ptc/core/foundation/associativity/xconfs.
Configure the property as follows:
<Property name="com.ptc.windchill.associativity.enableEquivalenceManagementForCED" default="true"/>
The default value is true, that means the equivalent status indicator appears for CED objects in downstream view of MAPSB. In addition to displaying the equivalent status indicator, equivalent links are created automatically between the CED object in downstream and its equivalent part in upstream. Restart Windchill server after configuring the property file for the changes to take effect.
Consider the following points related with the equivalent status indicators for enterprise data objects:
• Equivalent status indicator for CED objects do not appear in upstream view irrespective of the value specified in the com.ptc.windchill.associativity.enableEquivalenceManagementForCED property.
• Consider the use case: An equivalent link exists between part A.1 in upstream and common enterprise data object 00124 in downstream view of MAPSB. When the property com.ptc.windchill.associativity.enableEquivalenceManagementForCED is set to false, new equivalent links are not be created between a part and a CED object. However, the record of existing equivalent link between the part A.1 and common enterprise data object 00124 is displayed on the Equivalent Parts tab of MAPSB.
• There are no equivalent status indicators for View-specific enterprise data (VSED) objects because VSED objects do not support equivalent links.
• When the value of the com.ptc.windchill.associativity.enableEquivalenceManagementForCED property is set to false, equivalent links are not created nor tracked.