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Attaching forms

You can add forms to your structure, and fill out attributes within these forms. The following Microsoft Excel sheet shows an example of this.

Header1 Item Item Item Description Attribute
Header2 Item Item Item ItemRevision Master
Header3 Item Item Item project_id
Title Root Proc. Name Op. Name Description Item Project ID
Product New Product Project xyz
Sub_Assy1 New_Sub_Assy1 Project 1
Part1 Desc of Part1 Project 1
Part2 Desc of Part2 Project 1
Part3 Desc of Part3 Project 1
Part4 Desc of Part4 Project 1
Sub_Assy2 New_Sub_Assy2 Project2
Part5 Desc of Part5 Project2
Part6 Desc of Part6 Project2
Sub_Assy3 New_Sub_Assy3 Project3
Part7 Desc of Part7 Project3

Item Master and ItemRevision Master are keywords that signify that the values in those columns should be inserted into the master form or the revision master form, respectively, of the type specified in the Header2 row. The entry in the Header3 row specifies the attribute to be filled in by the given values. This must be in the internal format specified in the Business Modeler IDE application (for example, in the previous example, the Project ID string is shown in the user interface, but the string shown in the Business Modeler IDE application is project_id).

You can also add a form of your choice to the structure. In the following example, in addition to entering a value in the revision master form for program ID, you add the ImpactAnalysis form to the operations and fill in the cost estimate field with the given values.

Header1 Item Item Description Attribute Attribute
Header2 Process OP ItemRevision Master ImpactAnalysis Form
Header3 Process OP program_id cost_estimate
Title Proc Oper Desc AttrProgram # Cost
Attribute_Test F4711 0815
OP10 Description for OP10 F4711 0816 100.50
OP20 Description for OP20 F4711 0817 123.45
OP30 Description for OP30 F4711 0818
OP40 Description for OP40 F4711 0819 200.00
OP50 Description for OP50 F4711 0820 222.88
OP60 Description for OP60 F4711 0821
OP70 Description for OP70 F4711 0822 90.00

This results in the following structure.

Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.mse/ex_imp_attaching_forms · retrieved 2026-07-11