Data transfer during material assignment for ECTR

[nkara]

Hello eveyone,

As soon as I associate a document with a material, the mappings I made in attribute-to-sap.xml are not transferred to SAP.

It is mandatory to open the relevant SOLID document and edit/save and close.

The user adding material is not a SOLID user.

No editing authority for SOLID.

For this reason, an external user with SOLID authority must perform the attribute transfer.

In summary, data transfer should be triggered as soon as a link connection is established between the data and the material.
Is there a solution to this?

Thanks

Regards

Assign Material

Examples

[GerhardHimmelsb · Accepted solution]

Hello Nazif,

we introduced a similar feature some time ago, see https://help.sap.com/docs/SUPPORT_CONTENT/plm/3363504442.html#What'sNewinSAPECTR5.2andSAPECTR1.1forSAPS4HANA-Transfervaluesbetweendocumentandmaterial(PLM-30192,Improvementrequest214754and227103)

Keep in mind, this needs a manual trigger (menu entry) to transfer attributes. See also the config required in the article above.

See also ConfigurationGuide: Chapter 13.4 Function for Transferring Values from Document to Material

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Gerhard

[nkara · Accepted solution]

Hello Gerhard,

I reviewed the article. I have tested.

However, in my testing I found that this only works on standard data.

So Solidworks does not qualify by reading special parameters.

However, it works on standard data such as definitions.("SAP_DESCRIPTION","SAP_MATERIAL_DESC", etc.)

Regards,

Nazif

[GerhardHimmelsb · Accepted solution]

Hello Nazif,

can you explain, what you mean with "So Solidworks does not qualify by reading special parameters."?

You should be able to transfer any parameter from CAD to standard DIR + Material fields.

Are you looking for append fields in MARA or DRAW?

Regards,

GErhard

[nkara · Accepted solution]

Hello Gerhard,

For example, the following adaptation:

Normally, when we edit/save from within Solid, the material definition section is updated according to the data in the Solidworks custom field.

However, when I did as you mentioned in this example, it did not take into account the contents of the custom field.

It looks at the "SAP_DESCRIPTION" field. It does not update according to the adaptation I defined.

As in the required code structure, it should take into account the "APPL ATTRIBUTE" values.

Regards,

Nazif

[GerhardHimmelsb · Accepted solution]

Hello Nazif,

seems your question (use case) changes direction.

So you want to synchronize attributes from CAD system Solidworks during the checkin to the material master?

Keep in mind, that a Solidworks part/assembly file may contain SLW configurations which represent multiple Materials, so 1-DIR to n-Material relation. However, you might want to have a 1:1 relation between SLW-config to Material.

In the Solidworks documentation you will find the mapping from SLW configurations to Materials.

Hope this helps.

Gerhard

[nkara · Accepted solution]

Hello Gerhard,

Thanks for the quick feedback.

I think I found the solution.

We were making attributes by matching Solid parameters with characteristics.

I also defined all these characteristics to attribute-from-sap.

However, an important issue;

General attribute-from-sap should be used, not Solidworks attribute-from-sap. We had a hard time at first because this information was not written in most places.

We determined it by experimenting.

Regards

Nazif