HD90551: ALL THE INSTANCES OF THE CATPART ARE NOT LOADED IN THE ASSEMBLY-"REFERENCE NOT FOUND" STATUS IS SHOWN FOR THE UNLOADED

APAR status

• Closed as user error.

Error description

• SCENARIO:
  1. Create a CATPart
  2. Insert more than one instance of this CATPart into a new CATP
  3. Save the Assembly
  4. Close and Re-open.
  .
  OBSERVATION:
  Only one instance of the CATPart is loaded.
  Other instances show the status Reference not found in the Edit>
  Window.
  This is the problem.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• .
  Additional Closure Information:
  Incident Diagnosis:
  CATProduct contains instances having same name but different
  documents.
  The instances which show the status  Reference Not Found  are
  pointing to a different document which is not available at
  the previous stored location or is deleted using explorer
  from that location.
  For Example:
  1. Create a CATProduct  Product.1
  2. Create a CATPart   Part1
  3. Insert this CATPart in the Product.1 and save the assembly
  at a location (C:\test)
  4. Close the assembly
  5. Delete or move the Part1 from the location (C:\test)
  6. Create another CATPart with same name  Part1 and save it
  at the same location (C:\test)
  7. Open Product.1
  OBSERVATION:
  Part1 is shown as broken and in the Edit>Links status is
  shown as  Document Not Found
  8. Now, Insert the new Part1 in Product.1 and the name is
  seen as Part1(Part1.2) , means it appears to be a instance of
  the Part1 in the assembly but it is actually not.
  9. Now Save the assembly again, close it and re-open it.
  OBSERVATION:
  Part1 is shown in not loaded status and Part1.2 instance is
  loaded.
  Check in Edit<Links and the status displayed is  Reference
  Not Found
  10. Replace the missing Part1 and map it to the new Part1.
  11. Save the assembly and close it.
  12. Re-open the assembly and there is no problem with the
  CATProduct now.
  For more details on the example refer the attached video.
  This is the exact way customer data behaves.
  This is an issue with the data creation and not CATIA
  behavior.
  CATIA is working as designed, as it points to the original
  document from which the first Part1 was referenced and hence
  the status  Reference No Found  is seen.
  User has deleted or moved Part1 using explorer and that s why
  this problem has occurred.
  It is not recommended to perform operations on assembly or
  any CATIA data from outside CATIA UI.
  .
  CATDUA cannot detect the problem or any rule because the
  original document itself is missing and it can be manually
  replaced by using the Replace command.
  There cannot be a rule to detect the missing document from
  the data because if CATDUA removes the missing document from
  the assembly, user will not be able to replace or re-map the
  Part to document.
  .
  Therefore because there is problem with the data creation
  method and not CATIA, this APAR is closed as USE
  

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