Moving and removing lines
Structures change as a design settles. Both operations happen in the Staging Area.
Moving a line
Drag a row onto the assembly you want it to sit under. The line keeps its item and its quantity, and takes a new position in the tree.
- Press and drag the row. A small card follows your cursor showing what you are moving.
- Valid targets highlight as you pass over them.
- Release. The branch you dropped into opens so you can see where it landed.
A short press without movement is still a click, so you will not open a drag by accident when you meant to select a row.
Where a line can go
A target is valid only if it is:
- an assembly or product, not a part, because parts hold nothing
- staged, not committed
- not inside the thing you are dragging, which would make a loop
- not the parent it is already under
If a drop is refused, Partix tells you why instead of snapping the row back without explanation.
Removing a line
Hover the row and select its remove action. You will be asked to confirm.
Removing a line does not delete the item
It deletes the line, which is this item's place in this parent. The item itself carries on existing, along with every other parent that uses it. Removing a shared bracket from one assembly leaves it exactly where it is in the other five.
To remove something everywhere, remove it from each place it appears. The Where used tab lists them all.
Changing a quantity
Quantities are edited in place on the row. The extended quantity, the extended cost and every total above recalculate immediately.
Both actions stage the parent
Moving or removing a line changes the parent's bill of materials, so the parent is marked as edited, not the item that moved.
- That is what puts it into commit review.
- That is what makes everything above it need releasing again too.
When you move a line between two assemblies, both are marked: one lost a line, one gained it.