Part Templates

There are various purposes for using part templates, among them: * template parts can hold information that can be re-used across “variants”, a template part could be useful for creating a base variant of an assembly which can be derived from, with BoM changes for instance *

“Variants” parts will reference the “Template” part therefore explicitly creating and showing direct relationship. They also allow you to do special things like: * Serial Numbers Parts that are linked in a template / variant relationship must have unique serial numbers. e.g. if you have a template part Widget, and two variants Widget-01 and Widget-02 then any assigned serial numbers must be unique across all these variants.

Stock Reporting The “stock” for a template part includes stock for all variants under that part

Logical Grouping The template / variant relationship is subtly different to the category / part relationship

Create Variant

When a part’s Template option is turned-on, “Variants” of this part can be created.

To create a variant, navigate to a specific part detail page, click on the “Variants” tab then click on the “New Variant” button. The Create Variant form will be displayed: {% with id=”create_part_variant”, url=”part/create_part_variant.png”, description=”Create Part Variant Form” %} {% include ‘img.html’ %}