"VENDOR" not showing up in BOM on .idw after adding it

[Anonymous]

I've never seen this before! When I add "VENDOR" in my column chooser, it shows up in the "Selected Properties" on the right, but once I click OK, it doesn't show up in the actual BOM afterwards. Has anyone seen this before?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Well, since I can't delete this post, and maybe someone in the future might find this helpful: I figured it out! Someone messed with the styles editor. Vendor was always part of the BOM in our standard template, but with a width of 0. That seems to confuse Inventor, where it doesn't show it at all, not even in the Parts List Window. Solution: Update column width to something useful in the styles editor, remove the column, click OK. Go back in and re-add the column. Then it works.