Filtering and expanding source and target structures

You can narrow the scope of the accountability check by limiting it to only the lines pertinent to your use case.

The filter mechanism is based on closure rules that traverse the structures and take only those objects specified in the closure rules into consideration. The closure rules that are used in the accountability check are referred to as inclusion rules and are not available to use for importing and exporting.

By default, Teamcenter presents you with a set of inclusion rules. Your administrator can modify these inclusion rules or create new ones to suit your business needs.

Note

When running the accountability check based on inclusion rules, there is no need to expand or unpack any of the structures. This improves the performance of the check.

When running the accountability check without inclusion rules, you must first expand and unpack the compared lines in the source structure.

Expanding a structure based on closure rules also plays a role in which objects are taken into consideration in the accountability check. If you expand using an appropriate closure rule, you may not have to set an inclusion rule when running an accountability check.

Related Topics

• Introduction to closure rules

• Configuring the inclusion rules

• Minimize expansion of structures using closure rules