Delete, Copy, and Paste for Records with Associations
Records in the FMEA Tree Items, FMEA Worksheet, and special Global Attributes tables can be associated with any number of control plans and DVPs.
• In the Global Attributes table, you cannot delete, copy, or paste records because global attributes can only be copied into the System file from a Windchill product. When you insert an assembly into an Assembly Library file, global attributes are copied into the Assembly Library file along with associated control plans and DVPs. However, when you insert this library assembly in a System file, only the associated control plans and DVPs are copied into the file.
• In the FMEA Tree Items and FMEA Worksheet tables, you can delete, copy, and paste records.
◦ When you delete a record from one of these tables, the control plans and DVPs associated with the record are not deleted.
◦ When you delete a control plan or DVP, associations with this control plan or DVP are removed from FMEA Tree Items, FMEA Worksheet, and Global Attributes records, but the records themselves are not deleted.
System Files
If you copy and paste a FMEA Tree Items or FMEA Worksheet record within the same System file, all associations to control plans and DVPs are also copied. Similarly, if you copy and paste a control plan or DVP within the same file, all associations to FMEA Tree Items and FMEA Worksheet records are also copied.
If you copy a FMEA Tree Items or FMEA Worksheet record in one System file and paste it into a different file, all control plans and DVPs associated with this record are also copied into this other file.
• If the control plans and DVPs to which the record links have not already been copied into this file, new control plans and DVPs are created.
• If the control plans and DVPs to which the record links have already been copied into this file, the record is linked to the existing control plans and DVPs.
If you copy a control plan or DVP in one System file and paste it into a different file, associations to FMEA Tree Items and FMEA Worksheet records are not maintained. In this file, the newly pasted control plan or DVP has no associations.
Assembly Library Files
If you copy assemblies from a standard System file into an Assembly Library file, Windchill Risk and Reliability follows the above rules for copying FMEA Tree Items and FMEA Worksheet records in one file and pasting them into a different file. All control plans and DVPs for an assembly are copied into the Assembly Library file if they do not already exist in this file. Copying an assembly back from the Assembly Library file into the System file that it originally came from does not result in the creation of new control plans and DVPs. Instead, all links are updated to point to the original control plans and DVPs.
If you copy assemblies from a System file that was created from a Windchill product into an Assembly Library file, the Windchill identifier fields and Global Attributes records for all items are copied into the selected tree branch. Additionally, all control plans and DVPs associated with these attributes are copied, and these links are maintained.
Associations that FMEA Tree Items records have with control plans and DVPs are not copied and maintained because this would create additional copies of these control plans and DVPs. You want the Global Attributes record and FMEA Tree Items record to point to the same control plans and DVPs, not to different copies of these same records. The Global Attributes table is visible in the System file only if you have a Windchill integration license for CTQ (critical to quality) characteristic management.
Assume that you create another System file from the same Windchill product structure. The Windchill identifier field matches the same field in the Assembly Library file. This means that there are two global attributes with the same name, even though their values might differ. Based on the matching name, the links from global attributes to DVPs and control plans are copied into the System file. All associated records are also copied.