Populate partitions with structure elements

After creating partitions from a partition template, you can add structure elements to the partitions. A structure element added to a partition is called its member. To add partition members, run the populate_partition_members utility.

Caution The populate_partition_members utility works only for the first time, that is, when you populate partition members initially. It does not work when you update partition memberships by adding, removing, or deleting members.

Also, in the case of a Usage BOM, if the product is indexed using Smart Discovery Indexing, then the partition memberships are created with the first-level part usages and the lower-level part usages. However, if the product is not indexed, you get an error message.

Example

Consider the following structure where you set the partition schemes and partitions in the Template Action field of the structure elements that you want to add to the partitions. You can also set the partition schemes and partitions in any other field that is of the type string.

Crosskart
  Chassis
    Footboard (Template Action > Functional=Ptn123, Spatial=Ptn456)
    Front bumper
    Rear bumper
    ...
  Wheel assembly
    Wheel (Template Action > Spatial=Ptn456)
    Rim

If you run the populate_partition_members utility for Crosskart as follows:

populate_partition_members -u=tcadmin -p=tcadmin -g=dba -item=Crosskart -partition_member_property="Template Action"

Footboard is added to the partition Ptn123 under the Functional partition scheme and to the partition Ptn456 under the Spatial partition scheme. Wheel is added to the partition Ptn456 under the Spatial partition scheme.

Run populate_partition_members -h in the Teamcenter command prompt for detailed information regarding this utility.