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PLM Dojo-How To Create A Teamcenter Pseudo Folder

The document explains how to create pseudo-folders in Teamcenter, which are not actual folders but dynamically generated views of objects related to a common parent object through a defined relationship. It provides steps to configure the display of pseudo-folders under different object types like Items and Item Revisions by selecting which relationships to include through the user interface or preference settings.

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PLM Dojo-How To Create A Teamcenter Pseudo Folder

The document explains how to create pseudo-folders in Teamcenter, which are not actual folders but dynamically generated views of objects related to a common parent object through a defined relationship. It provides steps to configure the display of pseudo-folders under different object types like Items and Item Revisions by selecting which relationships to include through the user interface or preference settings.

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How to create a Teamcenter Pseudo Folder -


The PLM Dojo

by Scott in Administration

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Recently someone asked me how to create a Pseudo Folder in Teamcenter. Well, that’s
sort of what happened. Actually, I noticed in the logs that someone found this blog after
Googling “create pseudo folder in tcua,” and I thought, hey! that’d make a good topic for
a post! It fits in with the overall theme of, “things I didn’t understand when I started
using Teamcenter.” And yes, this is what is known as, “playing to your audience.”

Anyways, the answer to the question, “how do I create a Pseudo-Folder in Teamcenter”


is: “you don’t”. Next question?

Okay, okay, fine. I guess I’ll explain…

What is a Pseudo-Folder, anyway?

You see, the reason you can’t make pseudo-folders is because they’re not really
folders at all; they’re fake folders. What they really are is just a convenient way to view a
group of objects which all share a common relationship to some other object. So instead,
what you really want to know is how to show pseudo-folders.

You’ll only see pseudo-folders underneath some other, parent, object, and the name of
the pseudo-folder will be the name of some sort of relation. The contents of the pseudo-
folder will be all of the objects that are the children of that relationship for the parent
item. Finally, pseudo-folders are created and populated dynamically, at run-time. They
themselves are not persistent in the database (the relationship they represent is
persistent, however).

How to show a Pseudo-Folder under Items and


Item Revisions
1. Open the Rich Client (AKA, Portal)
2. Edit → Options: General/Item (or Item Revision)
3. On the General Tab: Select the item type in the box labeled Select Item type
4. From the Available Relations column select the relation(s) you want to show as a
psuedo-folder and move it to the Shown Relationscolumn if it isn’t already there.
If you stop here, then the related objects will simply appear underneath the
parent item without being grouped in a pseudo-folder.
If you omit this step, then the next step will have no effect.
5. Do the same thing on the Related Objectstab.
This is the step that shows the related objects in a pseudo-folder.

How to show a Pseudo-Folder under other types of


objects
1. Open the Rich Client (AKA, Portal)
2. Open the User Preferences dialog.
Edit → Options: [Index] or [Search]

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3. Create or edit a preference named <type_name>_DefaultChildProperties.


Example: UGMASTER_DefaultChildProperties.
4. Add to the values for this preference the relationship types you want to see
underneath the parent item type.
This step corresponds to the the General tab settings in the steps for Items
and Item Revisions. That user interface is basically giving you an automated
way of doing this step.
Example:
1. IMAN_UG_wave_geometry
2. IMAN_UG_wave_part_link
3. IMAN_UG_wave_position
4. IMAN_UG_expression
5. IMAN_UG_promotion
5. Create or edit a preference named <type_name>_PseudoFolder
Example:UGMASTER_PseudoFolder
6. Add to the values for this preference the same values you added to the
_DefaultChildPropertiespreference.
This step corresponds to the settings on the Related Objects tab used for
adding pseudo-folders to Items and Item Revisions.

If you followed along with the example what you should now see is five pseudo-folders
underneath every UGMASTER dataset. These folders are populated with datasets with
which the parent dataset has the indicated type of inter-part relation.

A few notes
1. If you simply show the relationship without setting up pseudo-folders then nothing
is shown beneath the parent item if there are no objects with that relationship.
However, if you use pseudo-folders then the pseudo-folder is always shown, even if
it is empty — you see this a lot with the standard view pseudo-folder under item
revisions.
2. As of TC 8 you can only show pseudo-folders for relationships which are
configured as properties of the object type in the data model. This appears to be a
new restriction which was not in Teamcenter Engineering. Reference:
PR-02151780:

The PseudoFolder is displayed only for relations that are set as


properties for BusinessObjects. The customer needs to add
IMAN_based_on Relation as property for Item and deploy the changes
to the database and then set the preferences as required.

Step 1) open Item in BMIDE

Step 2) Add a new relation in properties tab

Step 3) add IMAN_based_on relation

Step 4) save the datamodel and Deploy the template to the database.

Now you can see the IMAN_based_on pseudofolder

3. In some circumstances you can create a relationship between two objects by


pasting one object into another object’s pseudo-folder. For example, you can do
this with the a Part Revision’s Represented By pseudo-folder.

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