Updating Multiple Bill of Materials

Updating Multiple Bill of Materials

When changes have been made to the component library, it may be desirable to propagate these changes to multiple BOMs. This used to be a laborious process if many BOMs need to be updated at the same time, involving opening each BOM and updating them one at a time.

Now, this process is much easier. A new update feature provided as part of the product and versions navigator helps you to propagate changes to multiple BOMs at once.

To use this feature, open the “Product Navigator”:

Click the “Update” toolbar button:

A dialog will appear prompting you to select the product versions you want to update. Select them using the check boxes and click the “Select” button to continue:

Note that only product versions which are not locked will be shown in this dialog (it is only permitted to update non-locked versions).

Differences between the selected product versions and the component library will be computed. This may take a few minutes for multiple and/or large BOMs.

Once the differences have been computed, they will be shown in a difference viewer dialog, allowing you to preview the changes before accepting and committing them:

To export the differences to a spreadsheet, click the “Export” button:

Once you are happy with the changes, click the “Update” button to commit them. Please note that this may also take several minutes if there are many BOMs to update: