Change the preferred substitute

Procedure

1. Select the required line in the product structure tree.

2. Click the List Substitutes.Teamcenter displays the List Substitutes dialog box.

3. Select the item to be the preferred substitute and click Prefer. Teamcenter displays the item identifier of the selected substitute and adds the original preferred substitute to the list.Alternatively, you can right-click the required line and click Set Preferred Substitute to display a list of the substitute components. Click the new preferred substitute.

4. If you have write access to the BOM view revision, you can save this change to the structure. If you do not have write access, Teamcenter warns that you cannot save the preferred substitute but you can make a temporary change. The ability to make a temporary change is useful if you want to visualize one of the nonpreferred substitutes in the structure.