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Releasing your part

All change forms provide status information about part record revisions, but only an implementing change form (which your administrator could name, for example, an engineering change notice, or ECN) has a permanent effect on the part record. This implementing change form, when it is formally approved, updates all pending items according to the instructions of the change form.

In other words, you release or cancel part record revisions by specifying the affected items on the implementing change form. Then, after all departments have approved the change, PDXpert uses the Affected list as a "script" to update the items that you've listed.

A non-implementing change form, like an engineering change request (ECR), does not update a part revision's status - it simply informs users how the part record ought to change in an upcoming implementing change, or describes a temporary change (such as a deviation or stop ship).

To release an unreleased part record revision, use the following general procedure.

1. Create a new implementing change form, such as an ECN.

2. Drag the part record that you want to release from the Item Explorer's Search tab or Previous tab to the new change form's Affected tab. The unreleased part record revision will automatically be flagged as requiring formal release. In addition, any pending child items appearing on the part record's Structure and Source tabs' Markup lists will automatically be added to the change form's Affected tab.

3. Submit the change form to an analyst for review, approval routing, and release (for the complete workflow, see "How to process a change form").

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