Displaying and hiding structures using the Show Unconfigured buttons

Teamcenter provides you with several buttons or menu commands that show or hide objects in a structure.

• Show Suppressed Occurrences

• Show Unconfigured Variants

• Show Unconfigured By Occurrence Effectivity

• Show Unconfigured Changes

• Show Unconfigured Assigned Occurrences (only applicable to a bill of process)

• Apply Occurrence Type Filters

If you have several structures open, the state of these buttons in the various structures affects what is visible in the structure. It can occur that you try to show unconfigured variants in a composition structure but are unsuccessful because they are not hidden in the parent structure. For example, you have the following product structure with Part2 configured out as a result of a variant rule, but with all variants exposed using the Show Unconfigured Variants button.

Additionally, you have a process structure that consumes Part2 from the product structure.

If, in the process structure, you turn off the Show Unconfigured Assigned Occurrences, you may expect the assigned part and the owning operation (depending on the settings of the typeAndRuleForProcessConfiguration preference) to be hidden in the process structure. If, however, in the product structure, the Show Unconfigured Variants button is turned on, you cannot hide the assigned occurrences in the plant BOP structure.

The following control only nodes in the process structure (processes and operations) and not assigned lines:

• Show Suppressed Occurrences

• Show Unconfigured Variants

• Show Unconfigured By Occurrence Effectivity

• Show Unconfigured Changes

The following control assignments being configured in and out:

• Show Unconfigured Assigned Occurrences

• Apply Occurrence Type Filters

Tip

You can simultaneously show or hide all Show unconfigured options using the Show Hide Unconfigured All list if your administrator sets the MEShowHideUnconfiguredAll preference to All.