Understanding revision rules

Understanding revision rules You can use revision rules to select specific revisions of parts and assemblies in a product structure by defining criteria such as working revisions, release status, effectivity (date or unit), and override folders. You can understand how these revision rule entries are evaluated to configure the structure. You can create and apply revision rules that select the appropriate revision of parts and assemblies in a product structure. A revision rule: Selects the working revisions and (optionally) specifies the owning user or group. Selects revisions by status (according to status precedence) or the latest revision with any based on the using release date. Optionally specifies the effectivity against which the revisions are configured. Effectivity may be specified by date or by unit number. Selects revisions in a specified override folder. Selects the latest revisions according to the revision ID in the following order: alphanumeric, numeric, or creation date. This selection does not depend on whether the revisions are in the working or released state. You define each of these criteria with a revision rule entry. A revision rule may contain any number of rule entries, each of which attempts to select a revision according to the specified criteria, for example, the status that the revision should have or the user or group that owns the revision. Teamcenter evaluates rule entries in the order of precedence until a revision is successfully configured. You can include some entries more than once to define the order of precedence. You can modify the order of the rule entries to change the precedence Teamcenter uses when evaluating the revision rule. Certain rule entries can also be grouped so that they are evaluated with equal precedence. Engineering BOM Management ─ Usage, 2606 Unpublished work. © 2026 Siemens