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September 27, 2011
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How are you using the Common Name attribute?

  • September 27, 2011
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I am looking into the Common Name attribute and the possibility of using it in my company. I would like to hear from those of you who are using the Common Name attribute and what set of variables you are using. Has anyone made it manditory for users to use this attribute. Taken it one step farther and checked for a matching variable when checking objects in?

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MikeFoster10-Marble
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January 18, 2012
I'm curious if Number can be put in repeat regions on a drawing for the parts list? We use the repeat region parameter "&asm.mbr.name" which puts in the file name, upper-cased, minus the extension. Is there repeat region parameter for Number?

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Mike Foster
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patrickchin20001-Visitor
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May 30, 2014

If you are referring to the ProE/WGM PTC_COMMON_NAME, in my past implementations, we have mapped it to the ERP material description and the PLM Windchill System Name. We also applied some customization to behave like an IBA. So you can change the NAME like a BOM, and the name has history. The workaround for using the save as history doesn't cut it. We just want the default Product Structure and EPMDocument Structure to behave like a normal BOM. I thought it was a more refined solution than having the ProE file+extension appearing for Windchill NUMBER, NAME and FILENAME. Use the attriubutes what they were hopefully architected for. To have the behavior of Pro/I X3 is just redundant.

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