File name varies in Inventor Bom

[Rishi-Bhardwaj]

Inventor Users,

                                there is an another problem with Inventor's Part List & BOM. I insert a Part List in drawing & got a file-name in cells "varies". what does it mean, I really don't know. 

May  be , I am not asking my question properly. So, there is a screenshot of part list. Please have a look & suggest me something to avoid such kind of problems.

Here, 1st column shows item no. 2nd qty. 3rd filename & 4th part  number. Here Part Number is OK, But file name varies. why. 

If anybody need some more clarification, please help me.

[James_Willo]

Hi, are you sure that every part with the same part number has the same file name?

Try unmerging them and see if it fixes it. 

[Rishi-Bhardwaj]

can you please elaborate, how to unmerge. all the parts have different filename with the different part number.

[James_Willo · Accepted solution]

In the assembly do this, then check if you still see 'varies':

[Rishi-Bhardwaj]

it works thanks a lot, but can you please tell me what was that. I am still unable to understand why that happens.

[James_Willo]

The purpose of this is that if it has the same part number it should be the same part, therefore they are merged by default. 

If someone is ordering all this stuff they don't want to search all over the parts list and add all the different quantities up.