Suppress and unsuppress occurrences

You can hide lines in a structure in the context of another line higher in the structure. This is useful if a structure contains content that is not pertinent to every user. For example, if you want to send a tool design package to a tool designer, not every operation that is contained in the package is relevant to the tool designer’s work. You can hide the nonrelevant lines in a structure as follows:

Procedure

1. Right-click the line in the structure that is the context of the suppression and choose Set In Context. For example, if you want to hide some lines in a tool design package, you select the root process.

2. Select the line you want to hide and choose Edit→Suppress/Unsuppress Line.

Results

Teamcenter hides the line in the structure. If you export a structure with hidden lines, they are not included in the PLM XML of the structure and are not exported.

You can display lines that are suppressed as follows:

In the structure view, click or choose Show Suppressed Occurrences from the view menu.

Teamcenter displays the lines that are suppressed with a symbol in front of them. You can display the Suppressed column to assist you in determining whether a line is suppressed.

You can unsuppress lines in a structure as follows:

Procedure

1. Display all suppressed lines by clicking or choosing Show Suppressed Occurrences from the view menu.

2. Select the suppressed lines that you want to show and choose Edit→Suppress/Unsuppress Line.