Hello PTC gurus,
In an effort to make an enhanced BOM report in our PDM10 M040 system I have tried to make a copy of the existing Multi-level BOM report that is normally run through a part Structure page but am having trouble doing so. This report does function and has relatively good information to start with and OOTB cannot, in fact, be run from a regular Report page; it spits out an error message saying "Run this from a part's Structure view". It is a Cognos-based report. To avoid mucking up this functioning report I tried, through Cognos8, to do the Copy function that shows up on a report when you click the More button on its entry line when looking at the report folders in Windchill. And every time I try this I've found that the copy is imperfect; several of the files that you see in the ZIP file of a report exported from Windchill are different between the original and the fresh copy, and usually the fresh copy doesn't even function.
For example, a first-layer file in the exported ZIP is one called TAG-LocationDescriptor-0.xml and it contains several reference links for the report. In the copy, several of the lines are missing.
What am I doing wrong? Is there some extra special setting in the Cognos Copy function that I have to trigger to make it properly duplicate the original report and not miss this stuff?
Please advise,
Daryl