About intermediate data captures

An intermediate data capture (IDC) is a PLM XML file that contains an exported structure with the configuration in effect at the time the IDC is created. An IDC may contain any configured structure including a collaboration context, structure context, or group of BOM lines. You can manage the PLM XML file in the same way as any other workspace object, including assigning it to a workflow, assigning it a release status, running accountability checks, and controlling access privileges with Access Manager.

After you create an IDC, it appears as a separate structure view and an entry for it appears in the Collaboration Context Tree view.

After creation, you can compare an IDC to existing structures. For example, if you create an IDC from a product structure, and then make modifications in that product structure, you can run an accountability check that compares the IDC to the modified structure to see the modifications.

To compare IDCs with each other or another structure, each line being compared must contain an in-context ID. Your administrator can run the bom_expand utility to ensure that each relevant line in the structure is stamped with an in-context ID.

When you create an IDC, Teamcenter uses transfer modes to export the structure and alias files to determine what to include in the IDC viewer. If you want to export custom objects or properties to the IDC, you must ensure that a transfer mode exists that contains clauses that includes these objects. You must also ensure that the alias files are modified to include the desired objects. If you want to see these objects or properties in the IDC viewer in the rich client, you must modify the alias files so that the viewer can extract them from the request object’s XML. The location of the various alias files is found in the following preferences:

• Structure_Alias_File

• Attachment_Alias_File

• Dataset_Alias_File

For more information about using transfer modes, see TC XML and TC XML Configuration for Data Import and Export.

An intermediate data capture structure is view-only. You cannot make changes to this structure.

There are various views available when working with an IDC, such as the Attachments view and the Graphics view.

Related Topics

• Set up the accountability check to compare to intermediate data captures