Define structures in the Product Workbench (see: Creating Structures) or in Oracle Bills of Material (see: Creating a Bill of Material). Once the structure is defined, you can manage the following from the Setup Workbench:

• adding attachment categories to a structure type

  This enables you to add attachments to a component. See: Adding Attachments

• displaying attachments

• updating a structure

   To add attachment categories to a structure type:

Associating attachment categories with a structure type enables you to view item attachments to structure components within a BOM. Suppose you have a CAD drawing attached to each of the major subassemblies in each of your engineering BOMs. You can associate the attachment category CAD Drawing to the structure type Engineering BOM. The CAD drawings for each of the subassemblies will then appear in the EBOM structures.

An attachment category must be created by the system administrator before it can be associated with a structure type. For more information, see the Attachments chapter in the Oracle E-Business Suite Developer's Guide. Once an attachment category is associated with a structure type, you can add attachments to a component within a structure of that type.

1. In the Applications tree menu, click the Setup Workbench link.

2. On the Search: Item Catalog Categories page, click the Structures tab.

3. On the Search: Structure Types page, click on the name of the structure type to which you wish to add an attachment category.

4. On the Basic Information page, click the Item Attachment Categories link.

5. On the Item Attachment Categories page, select the attachment category you wish to add. If it does not appear in the list, enter the name in the Search field and click Go.

6. After locating the correct attachment category, select it and click Add.

   To display structure component attachments:

You cannot view attachments for a structure unless an attachment category has already been created and added to the structure type. To create an attachment category, contact your system administrator.

1. Use any of the search methods (simple or advanced search) within the system and locate an item that is part of the structure in which you are interested.

2. Click the Configuration tab. You can see one or more product structures defined for the item.

3. On the Structures page, click the First Level Components icon for the structure whose attachments you wish to view.

4. On the Structure Components page, locate the component whose attachments you wish to display and click the Show (+) icon preceding the component name to open the attachments display.

   Note: In a hierarchical grid display, attachments appear as nodes in the component.

   To update a structure:

1. Locate the item whose structure you wish to update.

2. Click the structure you want to update

   The Update button appears when:

   • a user's role has privileges to update the item and

   • the item is in a lifecycle phase where direct updates are allowed

   The Create Change Order button appears when:

   • a user's role does not have privileges to update the item or, even if you do have privileges,

   • the attribute group's change policy is set to Change Order Required and the item is in a lifecycle phase that requires change orders.

   If both the Update and the Create Change Order buttons appear, then you can choose whether to create a change order before updating the structures or not.

   To associate an ICC structure with an item:

If an item belongs to an item catalog category with an associated structure, you can associate this ICC structure with the item in the master organization. ICC structures are useful when many of the items within an item catalog category use a similar structure.

The ICC structure version associated with an item revision depends on the item revision's and ICC structure version's effective dates.

For more information about ICC structures, see Creating an Item Catalog Category Structure.

1. Navigate to an item created within an item catalog category that has a defined ICC structure.

2. In the item's Overview page, select the Configuration tab. In the Structure List page, click Create Structures.

3. In the Create Structure Header page, select the following field values:

   • Structure Type

     Select the same structure type as the ICC structure.

   • Engineering

     Select this box. Only an Engineering item can use the ICC structure to create a structure for itself.

   • Structure Name

     Select the same structure name as the ICC structure.

   • Effectivity

     Select Revision Effectivity.

   The ICC's structure components default to the item structure if the item's structure is a revision effective Engineering structure with the same structure type, structure name, and master organization as the ICC structure.

4. Click Apply.

   The Structure: (Structure Name) page opens, displaying the item's new structure. From the Actions field, you can launch the Product Workbench.