Category Management

The Category Management provides users with an efficient way to search for objects by adding categories and category attributes to these objects.

Classification is available for items and documents. Classification allows designed parts, standard parts, and documents to be grouped by common attributes and retrieved for reuse, using the attributes and the values.

The classification mechanism controls a tree of categories and subcategories for the Item, Document Object types.

Note: Ensure that a Mask is defined for Category ID before creating a Category Tree and attributes:

Define the Category Tree and Attributes using the Classification Management (pdadm5600m000) session.

Select the Item Classification Node and click + to start creating the Category Tree.

Category is auto generated based on Mask. Category Name can be specified as required.

When you click OK, a new category Capacitors is added as shown:

More categories can be added based on the requirement.

Now for each category, the attributes are added in the Grid on the right side.

Consider the example below:

Two Categories are created for Item, EDA Components and Capacitors. Capacitors is the child category of EDA Components.

All the attributes created at the parent level are inherited by all the child attributes.

The Manufacturer, Package and Symbol attributes are inherited by Capacitors. These are indicated by ‘P’ in the first column of the Grid.

Capacitors can have own attributes. For example, Normal Voltage and Tolerance.

After the categories and attributes are defined, these can be used while creating Items or updating the existing Items. Refer to User Guide / Online help for complete functionality.

Document Category Tree and Attributes can be created similarly.