Finding and interpreting alignment reports

• Alignment reports are stored in the My Teamcenter Newstuff folder if the MEAlignmentCheckReportLocation preference is set to False or are attached to the item revision of the top line of the structure if it is set to True.

You can retrieve an existing alignment check report for a selected occurrence (structure line) from the Newstuff folder or by opening the Attachments view from the top line of the MBOM.

• If a report with the specified name already exists, the TC_CRF_overwrite_existing_dataset_content preference controls if the existing report is overwritten. If this preference is set to 1, the existing contents are replaced, otherwise the new report is appended.

• The creation and format of the report is determined by the following preferences:

MEAlignmentCheckReportDefinition This preference specifies the name of the report definition object that controls creation of the report. The default value is AlignmentCheckReportDefinition.

MEAlignmentCheckReportStylesheet This preference specifies the name of the style sheet used when creating alignment check reports. A default style sheet is provided, but you can create your own style sheet using the Report Builder application. The default value is AlignmentCheckReport.xsl.

• The report format is similar to that provided for the accountability check, as described in About comparing structures and propagating changes. However, you should note the following differences:

The Source column includes no indentation because the alignment check only considers aligned nodes.

The Target column cannot contain multiple targets. Instead, multiple target lines may be listed for a source line.

The Match column may show a mismatch, even though the user already performed an update action. This occurs if the comparison properties differ from the synchronization properties. In this case, the column shows if the update action was performed successfully, not whether the lines now match.