Reporting Where Used Data

About Where Used Reporting

CES provides reports that will allow you to generate a report on Where used capabilities of a Standard Part. There are two basic ways user can generate where used analysis report from VPM Navigator User interface:

  • User selects a PLM Part, PLM product or PRC and generates a report
  • User selects a CES part and generates a report
  • User can generate a report on the companies and its details

These reports are generated using the ENOVIA Generate Reports functionality. Details about using the Generate Reports functionality is beyond the scope of this topic. For more information, please refer to VPM Navigator WEB Product Guide : User Tasks : Reporting.

When Reporting Where Used Data

  • The ENOVIA V5 VPM database only indicates that a part is used within a product. It does not indicate how many times a part is used within the same product.  Therefore, you will not be able to view the total number of times a Part is used in the Product.
  • The Where Used Report Capability will be limited only to the out-of-box CES object Internal Item, Supplier Item, Manufacturer Item, Material and Specifications.  Pricing Data model, Alternates, Accessories, PLM profile, Notes, supplier item, companies, etc. will not be part of the reports' capabilities.

Accessing Where Used Reports

Where Used reports may be generated from PLM Parts, Products or Product Root Classes (PRC), Internal Items, Manufacturer Items, or Supplier Items.  To access these objects, refer to Searching the Database.  The following templates are provided for Where Used reporting.  However, you may use these templates to create your own templates to provide customized data reports.  Refer to Managing Reporting in the Lifecycle Administration guide for instructions on custom report templates.

 
If You Are Reporting on... Then use template... Report results
Internal Item CES_InternalItem.xrpt Reports the Internal Item mapped to the PLM Item. It also lists all the manufacture Items and manufacturers mapped to internal Item and gives the specification information.
Manufacturing Item CES_InternalItemtoManuItem.xrpt Reports all the manufacturer items mapped to Internal Item from CES.
Supplier Item CES_InternalItemtoSuppItem.xrpt Reports all the Supplier Items mapped to Internal Item from CES.
PLM Part CES_InternalItemtoPart.xrpt Reports the Part mapped to Internal Item from ENOVIA. It also provides all the part instances which are used in the Product along with Product structure.
PLM Part CES_WPReport.xrpt Reports all the part instances and relationship in black box mode.
Product or PRC CES_WPReportForProduct.xrpt Reports all the part instances which are used in the Product along with Product structure. It also provides the Internal Item and manufacturer items mapped to the part instances.
Internal Item CES_PartInstancetoInternalItem.xrpt Reports the Internal Item mapped to the PLM Part Instance. It also lists all the Manufacturer Items and Supplier Items mapped to Internal Item and gives the specification information.
PLM Part CES_PartUsage.xrpt Reports all the Part instances of a Part. It also Provides the Product Root Class and Project Information of the Part.
Company ObjectOnly.xrpt This is the default template. It can be used to generate the report for the company information.

How To Report Where Used Data

For details on producing reports, see Reporting in the VPM Lifecycle Navigator WEB Product guide.