Configuration Specific Properties in BOMs

I figure I must be overlooking the obvious, but I can't seem to get the
Description for individual configurations to show up in my BOM. I've
tried with both SW BOM and Excel. I wondered if the probelm was that
the Configuration Specific property is named Description, just like the
custom property, but I thought the Configuration took precedence over
the default Custom property. It seems to work that way for my Drawing
Number field.
I found a couple posts that appear to address this thru API commands,
but isn't there a way to do this directly? I don't have the time, at
the moment, to get a macro working.

SW2005 SP4
ST V5R12 SP11
XP Pro SP2
Excel 2003

Thanks for any help.

 

Just a guess - maybe the name Description in the config area isn't actually
spelled correctly? You are correct that the config specific property should
take priority.

WT

 

make sure that all your drawing views are set to the assembly configuration
your wanting the BOM to look at

Then also make sure that the part is set to the configuration you want in
the Assembly

Then rebuild the assembly drawing to get the BOM to update

Hope that helps

Steve T.