Associate a configurator context with any structure supported by Manufacturing Process Planner

Verify privileges to manage variability

To obtain the required variability data such as families, features, and rules from a configurator context, you associate the configurator with the product structure.

You can perform this association only if you have the Manage Variability privileges. To verify that you do:

Procedure

1. In My Teamcenter, right-click the topmost item of the product structure and click Access.

2. In the Access dialog box, verify that the Manage Variability privilege is enabled.

Note

Using a mixture of legacy and product configurator variants can cause data corruption. By default, the system uses the preference ME_EnableMixVariantModelCheck to prevent loading structures that use a mixture of these variants. If you are using only one variant, or no workflow results in mixed variants, change the value of ME_EnableMixVariantModelCheck to false. This value enables the system to open structures without a check.

Associate a configurator context with a structure

Procedure

1. In My Teamcenter, search for the structure and the configurator context.

2. Right-click the configurator context and click Copy.

3. Right-click the product structure and choose Paste. You cannot associate the configurator context with the item revision of the structure.

To verify if the configurator context is associated with the structure, select the product structure and click the Details view. The Relation column must show Variability Scope.

Only the configurator context associated with the topmost line item of the structure is considered for authoring variant conditions. Tip If you are likely to use this configurator context as the basis for several structures, set this as the default context.