Part Choices Revision Control

Altium 365 Component Management provides the Part Choices functionality that shows supply information about the part you are interested in, including manufacturing lifecycle state, inventory, availability, and pricing.

The previous version of this functionality did not allow tracking changes to part choices (e.g., seeing what, when, and by whom it was modified), so this was a gap in the audit process that has been filled.

Revision-Controlled Part Choice

The revision-controlled part choice enforces special control over parts. Each set of modifications is captured in a snapshot of the item record called a revision. Each revision represents the state of that item at a particular instance in time. When a new revision is created, the previous revision of the item is permanently locked and cannot be changed. The functionality is available for Pro and Enterprise users.

Summary of What’s New in Part Choices

• You can decide whether a new revision will be created once the part choice is modified (by default, revision control is disabled).
• The component history shows an appropriate list of part choices for each revision.
• The compare components function was quickly upgraded to compare component changes in Part Choices.

Enabling Part Choice Revision Control

An administrator performs this through the Admin – Settings – Vault – Components page of the Workspace browser interface. To enable it, check the box “Part Choices Revision Control.” For more information, visit Exploring the Browser-based Interface of an Altium 365 Workspace.

A user must have Part Choice Management permission to manage part choices. To learn more about managing permissions, refer to the Setting Global Operation Permissions for a Workspace page.

New Operation Permissions

You can control who can edit Part Choices. Even if someone has the "edit" permission for Components, this does not mean they have permission to edit the Part Choices.

Part Choice Management Permission is available only at the Pro and Enterprise subscription levels. To learn more about Altium Designer subscription levels, please visit Altium Designer Software Subscription Levels.