Manage affected items

Before the Change Control Board (CCB) review, you can manage the list of affected items at any time. Use this feature to predefine the components you plan to change and to specify how to handle items in stock.

If a change task contains items in the Affected Items tab, these are automatically copied to the Affected Items tab of the CO upon completion of the task if they do not exist there already. This is so that the change coordinator can monitor all affected items throughout the change process.

After you perform the changes to the items as part of the change order, make sure this view lists all items and BOMs you modified. This list is crucial because it determines which lifecycle state changes the system will perform when you approve the change order.

Use the Actions menu in this view to:

• Search for related items that were changed and should be added to the list.
• Apply the same lifecycle change to all or selected items in the list.
• Compare the working version of a selected item with another release to review changes.

When the change order reaches the Released status, the system applies the specified lifecycle operation to all items in this list. The system also creates a new revision or version for each item, as indicated by the From and To columns.