User-Specific Settings for BOM Reporting 

Use

You can define user-specific default values for BOM reporting functions and where-used lists, by choosing View.

Procedure

How to define user-specific values:

You can use this function on any of the initial screens, for example, BOM explosion. BOM level by level.

  1. Choose Settings → Reporting.

The Settings: Reporting dialog box appears.

  1. Enter whether you want to use the variable list as standard.
  2. Select the indicator for the print request screen if required.

If you select this indicator, you see the print request screen when you call a print function, so that you can check it and change it if necessary. All default values maintained for the user are predefined.

If you do not select this indicator, the system executes the print job according to the predefined defaults.

  1. Set the indicators that control the BOM explosion.

– Display sub-items

– Sub-assemblies

– Objects from classes

See Extending the View for BOM Explosion

  1. Set the indicators that control the where-used lists.

– Direct

– Via classes

See Defining a Where-Used List on the Initial Screen

  1. Choose Copy.