Merging ProI Attribute Values

[thomas_hogan_99]

All,

I have2 attributes in Pro/I, Description* and Description. Don't know
how 2 were created, but they are there so I have to deal with them.

Most PIVs (>97%) have values in Description*. The remainder has values in
(Description) or (Description* and Description).

It would be a manual effort to figure out which Description value to
migrate. Fortunately it's pretty easy to determine the "right" value.

Is there a tool available to merge the attribute values in Pro/I into a
single Description* attribute?

Tom (thomas_hogan@verizon.net)

[JimAugeri]

Description is the OOTB (built-in) attribute

Description* is a User Added attribute.



Why? Your guess is as good as mine.





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[lylebeidler]

We have this too.

Is it possible that it comes from importing pre-existing data into
Intralink? In other words, if I had a Description parameter in Pro/E before
I installed intralink, then when I installed intralink, that got mapped into
Description* rather than Description.

Again, "Why? Your guess is as good as mine."







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[#4]

Jim's correct.

"Description" (in the table configurator editor it shows with a pink dot) is a system attribute. This allows an object description to be entered for the object container (from a database perspective). This is a value that can be controlled and changed in ProI (and not in ProE).

"Description*" (shows with the user icon instead of the pink dot) is a ProE parameter that happens to have the same name that is only designated (shown) in ProI.

Naming is certainly confusing. When you throw in PTC_COMMON_NAME and epmdocument name and filename, it's get a bit worse (the CAD Data Admin 9.0 class has an excellent slide on this).

There are a couple of ways to look at solving the mapping for your migration. Feel free to contact me off-list for details.

Dan Harlan

[Robert-Altman]

I have been using Intralink since version 1.2



Back then there was no system attributes so naturally the one of first
attributes any system admin would create would be "Description"



A later revision then introduced predefined system attributes with one of
them being "Description", so we got stuck with both of them



Regards,

Robert Altman

CAD System Admin looking for a job.



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