Properties

Define your custom or standard properties to be displayed and manipulated by Flow.

• Name is the Inventor property name.
• For standard properties, make sure the spelling matches the predefined Inventor standard property name.
• Display name is the alias shown in the Property Edit panel.
• Check Custom property to define a custom Inventor iProperty.
• Check Read-only if the property should be displayed but not edited.
• Check Mandatory to require a non-empty value before Apply succeeds. An “M” badge appears on mandatory fields. Empty mandatory fields are highlighted on Apply with yellow background and red text. A second Apply attempt shows a dialog listing the empty fields. Mandatory overrides “Allow blank” on lists — a blank value will not be accepted even if the list allows it.

You can define multiple properties with the same name for use with different definitions in different document categories. You can also define hide rules so a property is hidden from the Property Edit panel when the rule evaluates to true.

Example: a property can be used in the document category Assembly, but be hidden if custom iProperty Layout is not Yes.

The iProperty name used by rules can refer to any Inventor iProperty; it does not have to be defined in Flow configuration.

Mandatory rule relaxation

By default the mandatory/property rule is enforced: a non-compliant property blocks Apply (the field is highlighted, and a second Apply lists what is empty or not in the allowed list). Under Configuration > Properties the rule can be relaxed independently for two editing scopes:

• Single component — default Strict.
• Multi-select — default Relax with dialog.

Each scope offers three modes:

Mode	Behaviour
Strict	Rule enforced; a non-compliant property blocks Apply.
Relax with dialog	Apply lists the non-compliant properties and lets the user override the rule for that Apply.
Always relaxed	Apply silently skips the rule and writes the valid edited values only.

Relaxation only writes values that were actually edited; untouched properties are left as they are. Because the mode lives in the shared configuration, an administrator sets it once for the whole team.

Linked lists

Select Linked lists when the values for one property depend on the current value of another iProperty. The linked-list source can be a standard or custom Inventor iProperty. Each mapping links a source value to one configured list by unique list ID, so list renaming does not break the link.