Important Points and Limitations

These are the limitations and important points to be considered for Saving modified files only preference:

• The Save only modified files preference is applicable only for Save to PLM operation and is not applicable for Save and Unlock and Check-In operations. The reason being that if the files contain mapping, then even if the files are unchanged, still the Save and Unlock and the Check-In operations might modify the files as a result of the mapping definitions.
• Operations such as Link to Item, Capture Design Variants, Associate/Remove Mapping Template mark the file as locally modified. Therefore, you must save the files to PLM.
• During Save to PLM operation, if you take ownership of any file, then those files must also be saved to PLM.
• Changing/setting the values of any of the integration preference values does not consider the file to be requiring saving into PLM. Example setting/changing of neutral file generation options, setting thumbnail generation preferences, usage of preference Generate items for all configurations and so on, is not considered for treating the file as requiring saving into PLM.
• If a model/assembly is changed, and user performs Save to PLM from the model and the Save only modified files check box is selected, then it is assumed that the associated drawing must also be saved to PLM. In the dialog PLM - Select Parents to Save to PLM, system will list the drawings for only those models that are changed and require saving into PLM.