About projects

Projects represent and control access to a particular piece of work that may be accessible to multiple organizations, such as project teams, development teams, suppliers, and customers.

Objects, such as items, item revisions, datasets, and forms can be assigned to projects. Additionally, folders, or folders and their contents can be assigned to projects. Items, item revisions, and engineering change objects can be assigned to projects during the creation process. All other workspace objects can only be assigned to projects after the object has been created. Objects can be selected from search results and assigned to a project or projects.

When an object is assigned to a project, attachment objects, as defined by the propagation rules, are also assigned to the project. Propagation rules are determined by include and exclude relations lists. By default, the include relation list contains the following relation types:

• Specification

• Manifestation

• AltRep

• EC_affected_item_rel

• EC_solution_item_rel

You can only assign objects to projects if you are a privileged project team member.

If you are a Teamcenter administrator or a project administrator, you can assign multiple objects in a structure to a project by running the update_project_bom utility. You can also use this utility to remove multiple objects from a structure.