Link to Parents of Previous Revision

Upon check in, a user may request to link the checked in, new revision to the parents of its previous revision. This allows the updating of referencing documents with the new updates.

Recommendation

Use Replace in parents of previous revision only in the WIP (Work In Process) stage of the design. This functionality also makes all referencing documents dirty. Therefore, as soon as these are opened in CATIA, a rebuild is needed (check out).

This advanced feature is not for daily use, it involves same issues as Overwrite Previous Revision regarding the updating of private working areas of other team members.

Setting up Replace in parents of previous revision

Starting from SmarTeam V5R13, the administrator can set automatic replace in parents of previous revision as shown below.

  1. From Administrator Options, select Lifecycle Options.

  2. Click the Into Vault tab.

  3. Check Released Parents of Previous Revision and Cheked-in Parents of Previous Revision.

    • If Allow replacement of previous revision is checked, the user can ask the system to automatically replace the previous revision by the new one in the current operation using the Set Default dialog.

    • If Automatically replace in is checked, the system will automatically set this option in the Set Default dialog.