Setting the view type

When creating a new BOM view revision manually, you specify a view type that is not already created for the item. You select the view type from a list of values defined by the Teamcenter administrator in the Business Modeler IDE. Teamcenter attempts to provide an appropriate default view type, according to the following rules: If there is only a single view type defined for your site, it uses the defined view type. If there is only one view type not used by the existing BOM view revisions of the item revision, it uses the undefined view type. If your default view type is not used by the existing BOM view revisions of the item revision, it uses your default view type. If Teamcenter cannot determine the view type, you must enter a value manually.

Note If the new structure is similar to an existing one, consider choosing the Save As→BOMView Revision menu command to make a copy of the BOM view revision and edit the copy structure. When you save a structure with a different name using the Save As command, the workspace objects it comprises are renamed, including the item identifier, the revision identifier, and any variant rule.

Note Teamcenter derives the names of BOM views and BOM view revisions from the identifiers of the owning item or item revision with the view type appending.