I have a superbom that contains a couple of hundred component parts as well as a number of placeholders. I use the placeholders for single part lookups(PCLookUp.DataLookup).
Is there any approach to this that would allow a placeholder “approach” (or any other for that matter)to return more than one component part as the result of a lookup? I might be off a bit on how I am presenting this but I think it gets to the jist of what I would like to accomplish.
In E9, I did have some success with using a Phantom BOM as a placeholder but I think I still had to add rules to the parts for the phantom parts below. Might be worth a try.
Mark W.
Like @Mark_Wonsil suggested, you can use “placeholder” phantom assemblies… replace one assembly with another, and then it will explode that phantom. This is the best way to get a bunch of parts included with one simpler rule.
I did this very thing with a customer who made items in 4 different main sizes… depending on the size, we changed the hardware kit that was required. There were 75-100 different part numbers in the hardware kit, with varying quantities… rather than change the quantity of 100 items, i only had to choose the correct phantom kit.