Control edit access to an assembly

As the owner of an assembly, you can control edit access to the assembly in your structure. For example, you can control which users can add or remove a child or modify the occurrence properties of a child in the assembly.

You can do this through a workspace object in Teamcenter called BOM View Revision (BVR). A BVR stores the single-level assembly structure of an item revision. In a structure, whenever an item is an assembly (it has children), the item revision created is a BVR. When you add a child to an item, the system creates a BVR automatically. To edit the assembly, other users must have write access. If you do not want other users to update the assembly, you can check out the BVR. Similarly, you can grant them access to edit the assembly.

Procedure

1. Select the relevant assembly in the structure.
2. On the Overview tab, expand the Assembly Information section. This section displays one or more BVR objects associated with your assembly. It also indicates if the assembly is released, or checked out, its last-modified date, and the owner information.
3. Select the relevant BVR.
4. To open the BVR, click Open and to view and edit its properties, click Information . To check out the BVR, choose More Commands > Edit > Check Out and to check in the checked-out BVR, choose Edit > Check In .