On the Position Properties screen, you can define variable BOM position properties for use on the Maintain BOM screens. These properties are used to add additional information to BOM positions, that is, information not supplied by the ident description.
The position property definition is stored by discipline.
All properties defined on the Tables and Properties screen can be assigned. A Property can only be assigned once to a discipline.
When you assign new properties, select the appropriate discipline in the first (Discipline) grid. Then move to the second (Assigned Properties) grid and enter a sequence number for the property in the Seq field. This number establishes the display sequence of variable position properties on the Maintain BOM screens.
In the Name field, you can use the LOV function to select the property, and the Description and Unit Code fields are automatically filled from 'Tables and Properties'.
With the Mandatory indicator, you can define a property as obligatory, meaning the property values must be filled when entering BOM positions on Maintain BOM; otherwise, a warning message appears, prompting the user to enter the value.
The warning message appears only when the mandatory property is visible in the current
view.
If you enter a value in the Target Node field, the property is only added to positions of that node. When Include Sub Nodes is checked, the property is also added to the sub nodes of the selected target node.
The second (Group Dependent Properties) and third (Part Dependent Properties) tabs can be used to define group or part specific properties. These position properties are only added for matching groups or parts. The handling in these tabs is the same as in the first tab.
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The property definitions should be set up here before Bills of Materials are created in the project. But you can also add properties here when BOMs are already present. The new properties are then automatically copied to the relevant BOM tables for those positions belonging to the selected discipline.
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For adding properties when BOMs are present, the insertion may take some time to complete. Furthermore, if you have large amounts of BOM data, this operation may also require a large amount of rollback space because of the data size of this transaction. Therefore, it is possible to set up the RBS_PROP parameter on the DBA Settings screen to assign this kind of transaction to a specific rollback segment. This rollback segment must exist in the database, and, of course, must also be placed online by the DBA; otherwise, an Oracle server error message occurs.