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Carrying over future incremental change when cloning

When cloning, you have the option to carry over future effective incremental changes. If you are using date effectivity, future is anything falling after the date set in cloning dialog box. If you are using unit effectivity, future is anything after the unit number set in the cloning dialog box. Incremental changes that are currently effective are merged with the currently set incremental change. Those that are effective in the future are carried forward to the new cloned structure or re-created under new incremental change revisions. Any incremental changes whose effectivities are in the past are dropped from the cloned incremental change.

Note

Specify the release status type that is assigned to any newly created incremental change revisions during cloning in the Clone_Pending_Release_Status preference.
Specify the release status type that should be considered as secure in the Clone_Secured_Release_Status preference.

In the following figure, the vertical line represents the point of cloning.

Cloning with incremental changes

1	IC1	Incremental change 1 whose effectivity lies in the past.
2	IC2	Incremental change 2 that is secure and configured.
3	IC3	Incremental change 3 is the current IC (set at the bottom of the pane) that is configured and pending. This is the target IC.
4	IC4	Incremental change 4 is pending and unconfigured.

After cloning, Teamcenter:

Disregards IC1.
Clones IC2 to a new IC5 and the change elements in IC2 (that is, add or remove) that are associated with the cloned object are cloned and added to IC5. IC5 then has a pending status.
IC4 is left alone and the new change elements are added to it. This is not cloned because the status is pending and the out effectivity does not match the currently set IC revision (IC3).