Controlling perspective behavior when opening structures in views

When working in a perspective, you can control when a perspective opens a new view for structures that are loaded. There are two ways of opening structures:

• Explicitly You send a structure to Multi-BOM Management, load it from the History list, or use the Open by Name button to open a specific structure.

• Implicitly You open a structure and all its associated structures are loaded as well. For example, when you open a collaboration context that contains multiple structures, all the individual structures are loaded into views. Alternatively, you open a product and its associated process or plant is loaded as well.

When you load structures explicitly, they are always opened into a view. If an empty view is available, the structure gets loaded into that view. If there is no empty view available, a new view is opened to house the structure.

When you load structures implicitly, you can control the loading of the associated structures. You can do either of the following:

• Open all related structures in their own views, first filling existing views and then opening new views for the remaining structures.

• Fill existing empty views with the appropriate structure. You must then open any remaining associated structures explicitly.

For example, you are working in the Manufacturing - Process Sequencing perspective and want to open a collaboration context that contains an EBOM, an MBOM, a process, and a plant structure. The Manufacturing - Process Sequencing perspective, by default, contains only a process view, the Gantt view, and the PERT view. Depending on which mode you choose for the perspective, one of the following happens when you send the collaboration context to Multi-BOM Management.

OpenExplicitOnly

The process opens in the process view. If you want to see the EBOM, MBOM, or plant structure, you must open it explicitly (for example, by selecting them in the Collaboration Context Tree view and choosing Activate).

OpenAllStrategy

The process opens in the empty process view; the EBOM, MBOM, and plant structures open in new views. These structures are opened implicitly.

You specify which mode Teamcenter uses to open structures using the Window→Perspective Mode command. When you choose a mode, it is applicable to that perspective. Other Multi-BOM Management perspectives can use a different mode. The default mode for each perspective is set using the MEPerspectiveMode preference. By default, the Multi-BOM Management default perspective opens all structures in views (OpenAllStrategy mode). Other Multi-BOM Management perspectives fill available views with structures but only explicitly opened views open in new views (OpenExplicitOnly mode).