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.

Infor PLM for Discrete enables you to generate unique identification keys automatically, for objects. The keys are initialized and incremented either by using the mask or by manual entry. The use of masks makes the process of creating PLM object more efficient and consistent. You can use Masks (pdadm6501m000) session to access the mask.

If you assign a default mask for an object ID, this mask generates values for the same object ID across all projects that do not have a specific mask assigned.

When a mask is defined for a particular object ID, and a new object of that type is added, the current key value, is assigned to the ID, for example DOC-01. 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.

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Masks are also defined for Documents Key, Document Revision, File Key, and File revision.