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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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        buenosroas13-Aquamarine
        13-Aquamarine
        July 4, 2023

        In light of reproducing the issue:

        Do you search with or without Indexing/Solr? If you do, may I presume that you have performed a full reindexing? 

        Do you see the same behaviour regardless of searching for an enumerated IBA or not? 

         

        I note that our system does not make use of our own global enumerations. Our attributes that are made using Reusable Attributes have the Legal Value List or Enumerated Value List constraints instead. 

         

        I will regardless try to reproduce and see the results for myself. 

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          buenosroas13-Aquamarine
          13-Aquamarine
          July 4, 2023

          Yes, you are correct. I was thinking about keyword search, so ignore my question about reindexing. 

          Enumerated IBA: In your example you have created a Global Enumeratation and then used that to represent the available choices.

          We have a similar setup, but instead of linking to a Global Enumeration we have added the possible options directly.

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          On creating an Enumerated Value List constraint you may either make use of a Global Enumeration or make a new one directly. Our system uses the latter, so I do not have a vast amount of objects I may search for under identical circumstances. I'll try to test it out regardless.

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