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Enter Enterprise BOP search criteria

If you work with enterprise bill of process structures, you can you can search by a logical designator.

Procedure

  1. In the Query Type box, select Logical Designator.

  2. In the Result Type box, select the type of result for which you want to search. You can search for a process or an operation.

  3. In the Logical designator box, do one of the following:

Type a logical designator. You must follow the convention of serializing the logical designator.

You must specify the searched values of the fields in the order they appear in the logical designator form.

You must separate the searched values by the logical designator delimiter, defined by the MELogicalDesignatorDelimiter preference (; by default). Do not use leading or trailing blanks. For example, if the logical designator consists of four fields, and the search should find logical designators whose first field (a string) equals SubsystemX and whose third field (a number) equals five, the serialized filter is SubsystemX;;5;.

When you type the filter value, Teamcenter does not check for validity (for example, compatibility with the types of the fields or conformance with LOVs).

Click .... Teamcenter displays the Logical Designator dialog box. This dialog box includes all the fields that comprise the logical designator class that is related to the object type you chose in the scopes section.

     Enter search criteria in the available boxes.
     Boxes that are defined as mandatory in the logical designator form are marked with an asterisk but they are not mandatory in this dialog box. 
    
    
     Click OK.
  1. Click Search.

Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.mse/id768557 · retrieved 2026-07-11