Mask Management

Mask is an object that defines the rules to set a value for identifying an attribute in PLM. This is mostly used for the attributes that are part of the object key and require a unique value. You can use Masks (pdadm6501m000) session to access the mask.

Infor PLM for Discrete enables you to generate unique identification keys automatically for objects. The keys are initialized and incremented by masks either by using the mask or by manual entry. The use of masks makes the process of creating the PLM object more efficient and consistent.

If you assign a mask as the default mask for an object ID, this mask generates values for the same object ID over all projects for which no specific mask has been assigned.

After a mask is defined for a particular object ID, whenever you add a new object of the same type, the current key value, such as DOC-01, is assigned to the ID. Each time an ID value is specified based on the key, the key is incremented according to the mask increment rule definition, for example, DOC-02, DOC-03.

By Default, Masks can be defined for these tables: