Jeroen Bosch - Friday, February 13, 2015 6:35 AM:
Hi,
I have searched the forums but couldn't find an answer to what I see as an important question:
If you create a lifecycle map, link it to a given item type, only the items which are created *after* the lifecycle map creation, are linked to an instance of the lifecycle map. If you try to open the lifecycle of an item created *before* the lifecycle, Innovator tells you that there is no lifecycle attached to it.
It seems to me that this must be a general issue because a PLM is never finished as we always add new functionalites and for instance life cycles to an existing system.
I am quite confident that somebody somewhere has develop a database query or an Innovator method to fix this.
Thanks
Jeroen.
Eric Domke - Friday, February 20, 2015 8:03 AM:
A life cycle could be applied to existing items by setting the state and current_state properties on existing items (e.g. by using an appropriate update statement in SQL). In particular, the state property should be set to the name of the correct state while the current_state should be set to the ID of that very state.
