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jfrancis1-Visitor
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October 20, 2016
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What is an IBA?

  • October 20, 2016
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Can someone recommend some reading material about IBA

Best answer by cgorni

As indicated by Shirish in another reply, IBA stands for Instance Based Attribute.

Since Windchill 10.0, and the addition of other options for attributes, they are called Global attributes, see Help Center here.

 

The Help Center is also a good starting point to gather more information on such Attributes and how to create them, here for Windchill 12.1

The article CS357203 collects different resources on Types and Attributes and could be an interesting next step.

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ShirishMorkhade_23875516-Pearl
16-Pearl
October 20, 2016

Hi Joseph Francis‌,

IBA stands for Instance Based Attributes. As its name indicates, they are Instance based.

By mean of Instance based - they are defined on particular object type (WTPart, WTDocument, etc). For example if you look at Name, Number, they are available for all object types. We call them as Modelled objects.

Instead, IBA can be defined on either WTPart, WTDocument, etc.. they are specific for those types. Additionally, you can also define IBA for soft types too. It means you can define attribute say IBA_1 specific to soft type to softtype_1.

I hope this helps you.

Regards,

Shirish

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    cgorni16-PearlAnswer
    16-Pearl
    July 22, 2022

    As indicated by Shirish in another reply, IBA stands for Instance Based Attribute.

    Since Windchill 10.0, and the addition of other options for attributes, they are called Global attributes, see Help Center here.

     

    The Help Center is also a good starting point to gather more information on such Attributes and how to create them, here for Windchill 12.1

    The article CS357203 collects different resources on Types and Attributes and could be an interesting next step.

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      Herve_Mercier10-Marble
      10-Marble
      June 29, 2023

      Hi,

       

      Global attribute are bugged, you can't search based on them and PTC don't plan to fix this.

       

      Don't base your PLM architecture on that :

      https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS373513?source=search

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        HelesicPetr
        22-Sapphire II
        HelesicPetr22-Sapphire II
        22-Sapphire II
        June 30, 2023

        Hi @Herve_Mercier 

        I would like to see example what advanced search do not return if IBA is used as a criteria.

         

        PetrH

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          Herve_Mercier10-Marble
          10-Marble
          July 3, 2023

          Hi,

           

          Ticket opened (16940270)

          Attribute type created as reusable attribute

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          enumeration used by the attribute

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          the attribute definition on the doc type :

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          The search that give 51 results :

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          A report provide more than 1700 document with this value.

           

          Have a nice day

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