Upchain Ideas

anajjar8F7B6 · ‎11-15-2023

Similar to the eBOM Views, the Results of the Advanced and Quick search should be customizable. the User should be able to customize the search result columns and save for later use. this increases the readability of search results and makes them more user friendly.

arnau_llovet_vidal · ‎11-06-2023

It would be nice to be able to export to an excel file the Compare revisions comparison that can be seen through the Upchain CR screen. This way we would have a very visual summary report of the changes of the CR that we can include and share with all the team easily or through email See screenshot of what we would like to export.

anajjar8F7B6 · ‎10-25-2023

CAD user would like to set everything up in the CAD Plugin. it would be very helpful to add the possibility to set the revision Type "MINOR / MAJOR" decision in the CAD plugin. this is already exposed in the item view in the WebApp. so it should be a small thing to expose it in the CAD Plugin.

sageorgeVBRTR · ‎05-07-2024

Use Case: A user may inadvertently assign a value to an attribute (which is custom linked to a picklist) for an incorrect item. In such cases, the user needs the flexibility to remove the value from the attribute for that specific item. Rationale: The ability to assign an empty or null value to an attribute, including those driven by picklists, is crucial. This gap in functionality was unintentionally revealed during an API call test. Nevertheless, the necessity for this feature is substantial for effective data management within the system. This feature should be made available through both the user interface and API calls.

szczepan.balawender · ‎11-29-2022

Right now there is no possibility to bring the Item Status and Item Maturity Status attribute to a drawing's titleblock. Can you extend the list of the attributes for which there are codes on the drawing (https://help.autodesk.com/view/UPCHN/ENU/?guid=UC_MechanicalCAD_mc_cad_plugin_mc_map_attr_html) with the attributes Item Status and Item Maturity Status?

vweaverW3G8V · ‎03-27-2023

My desired use case is built around marking specific item versions obsolete. My designers and I are developing End-Of-Life processes for our business where, when a production or part is being retired, that version of the item is obsoleted. Our life cycle is predicated on always using the latest revision of a given item, so the item being retired would always be the latest working. Given that framework, it does not make sense to create another item version, a version that will never be used in production, to mark the item as obsolete. That is to say: if Item 123456-AC-00.000 is a production part being retired, we would want 123456-AC-00.000 to be marked obsolete, not 123456-AC-00.001.

anajjar8F7B6 · ‎10-11-2022

Use Case. we have a large list of Manufacturer and the user would like to use the Keyboard to navigate to for example "Festo". the current behavior. the Manufacturer list is a Dropdown list. the user can search the list by pressing "F" for festo. if the list of Manufactures starting with "F" is very long and the user would like to narrow the search by presses "E" after the "F" the list changes to the Manufacturer beginning with "E". Enhancement. the Search of the Dropdown list should be dynamic. if a user starts searching in the list for the Manufacturer Festo. they could start by pressing "F" getting the List of all starting with "F" continuing to narrow down the results of the search by Pressing "E" getting the results of all Manufacturer starting with "FE" . continuing by pressing "FES" until "FESTO" is selected or the user chooses this per mouse Click.

anajjar8F7B6 · ‎12-01-2022

Summery : as in the Item History the idea is to provide a History of the movements and changes made on the eBOM. the limitation : Currently there is no direct possibility to see when item movements where created or by whom in the eBOM.this is major limitation of the eBOM function. especially in large Assemblies and Projects the Idea : the user should be able to select the eBOM header and see the following information in the History of the eBOM. All movements. when was an Item added or removed, who made the change, changes to the eBOM Attributes of the added part "spare part flag", what was the eBOM filter by the Action " Effective Date for example" etc. the eBOM History should be provided in a separate tab of the item history to eliminate confusion. the function should be always active for System Admin with the possibility to turn it on/off for other Users.

smaddukuri2KE8C · ‎12-30-2022

In both Web/Plugin, Project BOM collapses after certain actions. User would have to expand Project BOM again to review where he left off last time. In some cases, this is such a waste of time/effort. The ProjectBOM in WebApp (left pane) should always stay as is even after selecting another BOM-filter (refer to video) The ProjectBOM in the BOM-View in the plugin should always stays as is after open/checkout an item (refer to video)

smaddukuri2KE8C · ‎11-17-2023

Users get a pop up that some files that are not checked out are changed. This pop up comes up during check-in/save-in process. However this pop up only displays file name and no other detail. It is difficult for user to figure out what item is that based on file name in most cases. Request is to improve the message. The message should include the following: Item number, Item name, Status. User also should be able to copy the text within the pop up to clipboard.

bonnrhee · ‎10-25-2023

A functionality similar to Vault would be handy. IE, When using the CAD application and logged into the Vault, on the first save, a part number will be suggested/created. Currently Upchain will only create an Item Number on Item creation and not on the first save. This means users still have to track their numbering in the CAD application before the Item is created.

masureb · ‎10-24-2023

Hello Upchain Team, it would be great to add the support of the IPN from Inventor. Today, we do have some workaround but nothing straight forward let me say. Thanks, -Bertrand

aaron37SWJ · ‎01-10-2022

Hey, It would be good to offer automatic plugin updates, as there has been a number of times now where we have came across issues that resort to us using older plugin builds and recently we have seen a number of updates to the plugins in very close succession. If this was done automatically we wouldn't come across such issues. It would be good to get some thoughts on this option. Thanks

anajjar8F7B6 · ‎12-16-2022

Please add the Upchain Logo to all Upchain Popup messages in the CAD Plugin whether it is an error message, warning an information, note etc. this is very useful for our users to see what program is prompting them to do something, check an error etc.

braxton · ‎10-26-2022

I think everyone knows what i'm talking about.

arnau_llovet_vidal · ‎11-06-2023

eBOM is not updated when saving a Solidworks drawing, it is only updated when saving the 3D Data or assembly. It would be a nice a addition if the Solidworks plugin had an option that could be activated/deactivated to also update the eBOM when saving drawings. For example, when saving a drawing you could receive a message. "eBOM doesn't match cBOM, do you want to update it?" Yes or No

Anonymous · ‎11-16-2021

I would like to see a user-defined "timer" or completion date that the Decision Primitive "approval" has to be accomplished by. If that step isn't dispositioned (approved or rejected) in a defined amount of time, a reminder should be sent to the individual/team, as well as the CR originator.

pranit.nagare · ‎04-28-2022

In our releases, the curly code conversion on the drawings fails multiple times and the only way to fix is to release the drawing again and again and hope for the best. This is really time confusing and leads to very messy rev table with multiple minor releases which are only to fix translations. There should be way for the project administrator/tenant admin to regenerate the dwg and pdf to trigger the translations of the code on a released item to get the correct output. This is what the table looks like after release when the code conversion fails.

Anonymous · ‎11-17-2021

During a Workflow decision step, if the WF is cancelled, the Cancel button shows up as "Reject". Please update to show it as Cancel.

imckenzieY7CGY · ‎11-08-2023

The BOM wizard uses cryptic symbols with no explanation or legend in the form to indicate what they mean or what to do about them. In my screenshot I show a line that the wizard claims to be anomalous. In the left-hand column, there's a question mark and a exclamation mark. Mousing over the question mark yields no response, mousing over the exclamation mark yields a tooltip saying "Is unresolved" - not very informative. On the eBom side of the wizard, there's a black flag beside the item type icon. While this is noticeably different than the white flag beside every other item, there's no indication of why it's different. Mousing over the flag yields a tooltip of the item number, right beside where the item number is already displayed. Nowhere on this form is there text that says "This item is obsolete" or what the possible actions to take are. The software should not just present these icons with no context or explanation. There should at least be a legend integrated in the form so users can reference what these symbols mean, but more ideally there should be tooltips on the icons with useful information and a long-form explanation of what the form is trying to tell the user with the possible actions to choose from.

add the ability to customize and save column Views of Advanced & Quick search results

Ability to export the Compare revisions screen on the CRs

Add the "MINOR / MAJOR" revision Type decision to the CAD plugin

Provide the ability to assign an empty string or null value to an attribute picklist

Item Status and Item Maturity Status drawing attributes codes

Ability to Obsolete Released Item Versions

the Dropdown list of Manufacturer must be dynamically searchable

provide eBOM History to the users or at least to the System Admins.

Project BOM should not collapse upon actions

Files changed pop up during check-in/save-in operation

Create Item Number on First Save in CAD Connector

Support IPN from Inventor with Upchain

Automatic Plugin updates

Add the Upchain Logo to all Upchain Popup messages in the CAD Plugin

The ability to delete projects and items without having to submit a support ticket

eBOM is not updated when saving a Solidworks drawing

Workflow Approval Step Timer

Regenerate Drawing Translations to fix curly codes

Workflow Cancellation Button Update

BOM Anomalies View needs tooltips, explanation of problems

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