Version: Windchill 12.1
Use Case: We use Gathering Parts to define subassemblies that are created in CAD for simplifying and streamlining the design and reusing parts. For example a part that is always attached with the same fasteners could be in a subassembly with all those fasteners already in place. These subassemblies are not needed or wanted in the ERP system.
Description:
Is there some way to make ERP Connector handle Gathering Parts the same way as they are handled when a BOM report is generated from an item structure? Now Gathering Parts are included in the XML message generated by ERP Connector and they just have the IsCadPhantom attribute in the BOMHeader message block to identify them as Gathering Parts.
We would like to handle dissolving the Gathering Parts to their constituent parts already in the Windchill side because it would be really complicated to handle it in our integration middleware. The information needed for handling them is distributed between three different locations in the XML message:
1. IsCadPhantom is in the BOMHeader of the Gathering Part
2. The quantity of Gathering Parts is in the BOMComponent of the Gathering Part
3. The quantity and part number of the constituent part is in the BOMComponent of the constituent part
I couldn't find any settings related to handling Gathering Parts in the Windchill preferences, Distribution Target settings or the ERP connector documentation.
