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Document Structure - Automatically attach Documents in Consists of Tab to Parent Document

  • January 13, 2025
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We have a client using the B2B Supplier Portal (for Cloud) and we are utilizing Document Structures for all of the drawings needed to manufacture all the subcomponents of a Purchase part. The Parent Document is connected to the Purchase Part.  It will be visible on the B2B Portal.  

Is there a way to have the documents in the consists of Tab of the Document Revision automatically be shown in the Attachments.  I have tried Object Transformations using the source LU (DocStructure) and the Destination LU (DocIssue), but the transformation does not work.

 

Thanks,

Gregg

 

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Mathias Dahl
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  • January 14, 2025

Object Connection Transformation cannot do that, it's not how it works. Object Connection Transformation relies on documents being attached (as under Attachments / Documents) to "some other object", and defining a rule to "find that other object". In the case of document structures, that's not what happens. The child/sub documents are not "attached to" the parent in the same (technical) way that a document is attached to, say, an engineering part, or an invoice, or whatever.

You could of course install a clever custom event and event action that in some way mirrors/replicates/duplicates the Consists Of documents as being attachments to whatever object is relevant here. So, the moment you connect a child document under a document, the event would make sure that the same child document is also attached (as in Attachments / Documents) to the object.

Developing that is left as an exercise to the reader 🙂 


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