Identifying unique options

Option names are not unique in the database; they are unique to a particular owning item. Thus, an option is only fully identified when you also specify the owning item. Teamcenter does not force you to define unique option names, allowing more than one item (product) to use the same option name, for example, engine. The set of allowed values for a particular option are unique to the owning item, for example, engine in owning item Car Model G, as shown in the following figure. With this owning item, the option has allowed values 1200 and 1600, but engine in owning item Car Model H may have different values, for example, 1600 and 2000. When you define an option name, Teamcenter prompts for the owning item. In dialog boxes and data displays, it then prefixes the option with the owning item to avoid any ambiguity. Unique options