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Add or Modify a Material Property

You can add or update a column in the material table across multiple process groups in a Digital Factory at once, rather than making the same change to each process group individually.  This feature is useful if your company needs to add a column to all material tables in a Digital Factory, such as “Company Description.”

  1. In the Digital Factory Toolset (or the Cost Model Workbench), open a Digital Factory.
  2. From the menu bar, click Tools > Add/Update material field.
  3. Enter the fields in the resulting dialog box. Use CTRL-left-click and SHIFT-left-click to extend your selection of process groups from the Select Process Group(s) field.
  4. When you click OK, a window will open for each process group you selected as it is updated. You can dismiss these windows when done.
  5. The column is added to the table, but it will not actually be populated with data.
  6. Input values into the field through the Digital Factory Manager.
  7. Select File > Publish Digital Factory from the aPriori Digital Factory Manager menu bar or click PublishIcon in the toolbar to save your changes.