Create a partition hierarchy and manually add elements to the partitions

You can use the create_partitions utility to create a simple partition hierarchy. After the partition hierarchy is created, you can use the Active Workspace user interface to manually add structure elements into the partitions.

If you need to create partitions in bulk, the recommended way is to use the .csv file. However, if you have to update an element, you must do it through the Active Workspace user interface because updating an element is not supported by the utility.

You can run the create_partitions utility as follows:

create_partitions -u=admin_user -p=admin_user_password -g=dba -template_id=template_id -file=path_to_input_file

If you create partitions within a partition template and do not specify the template_id, a new template is created with the specified ID. Partitions are created based on the details provided in the input .CSV file. Subsequently, to create additional partitions for the same partition template, you might run the create_partitions utility with a new or updated .CSV file.

For the detailed description of each argument of the create_partitions utility, refer to its help using the Teamcenter command prompt:

create_partitions -h

To create a partition hierarchy by using a .csv file, you can download the sample .csv file to create your own file (available from the source topic). The sample file contains the guidelines on how to arrange your data to create a partition hierarchy.

Caution The column headers in the .CSV file must be the internal names of the properties.

For the steps to manually add structure elements to partitions, see Add structure elements to partitions.