Meta model
Meta model compliant applications can discover the properties required to create an object. Once the property information is obtained, it is submitted back to the application requiring the information.
The objects where the meta model can be used are:
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Item
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Item Master
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Custom Master Form
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Item Revision
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Item Revision Master
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Custom Item Revision Master Form
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SE Draft (Dataset)
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Custom Form
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There is no requirement to define a mapping to a meta model property that is marked as required, regardless of an initial value.
Common property dialog boxes
When you save a new design to Teamcenter, the New Document dialog box displays the properties delivered with QY CAD along with meta model properties and mapped properties in the same row. The properties delivered with QY CAD are shown first, followed by the meta model properties, a column for overlaps between the required properties and mapped properties, and the mapped properties.
Below the property information, the New Document dialog box contains two additional read-only rows of information: the Teamcenter business object property name and the description. Required properties are designated with a red asterisk.
Description information can either come from the meta model or mapped property. The New Document and Upload dialog boxes use the following conventions to identify the origin of the description:
| Item.<property> | Description comes from the Item |
| ItemMaster.<property> | Description comes from the Item Master |
| ItemRev.<property> | Description comes from the Item Revision |
In an overlap condition, the description comes from the mapped property.
Once the new object is created, only the mandatory and mapped properties are shown in the Upload dialog box.
For more information about defining the required business objects and their properties, see the Teamcenter Business Modeler IDE Guide.
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