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Log on to the CES Administration Desktop
application.
The CES Administration Desktop window appears.
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In the Solutions pad, select Administration
Desktop.
The Applications pad is expanded.
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In the Applications
pad, select Data Modeler.
The Browser View window appears.

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Find the Item to PLM
Item class within the hierarchy. Enter
Item to PLM Item in the
Find: text box and
press Enter. Right-click
the selected Item to PLM Item class and select Edit
Element(s).

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The TableView Class
pane displays the properties associated with the
Item to PLM Item class. By
default, the class-specific properties are displayed. If you wish to
view all properties, included the inherited properties, check the
Show Inherited box. To
add one or more properties, click the
Create Property(s) button in the toolbar.

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In the Data Modeler,
indicate the type of properties to create and how many. After you
have entered the desired information, click
OK.
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In the TableView Class,
select one of the new properties, click the down arrow, and select
Valid Values. Using the
Valid Values, assign a
Class Property
Label for each new property. Scroll over and provide any other
information as desired. Once you have entered all the necessary
information, click Save CES Data Model
to save the changes to the database. On the main
toolbar, click the Commit to the
Database button to complete the process.

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In the Applications
pad, select Power Search.
Find the Item To PLM Item class to which you just added the attributes. Select the
class and click Go to Search.

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On the Power Search
View tab you can see that your new attributes have
been added to the class.

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To see
the changes you just made, in a Webtop or
Wintop application, clear the CES Server cache or restart the
server.
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Now, you (the non-Admin
user) can use the newly added attributes when you introduce a new component.
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In your VPM Lifecycle
Navigator Web product, do an ENOVIA search for the
component you wish to add. Select the desired part, and click the
Custom Part Promote
button on the toolbar.

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Enter the necessary information as you work through
the pages of the New Component Introduction. For detailed steps on
introducing a new component, refer to CES Component
Introduction Management : User Tasks : Component Introduction : New
Component Introduction. After the new component is
introduced, the Properties
window for the new component appears.
Go to the PLM Profile
tab and you will see the two attributes added to the
Item To PLM Item class.

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Next, in the
Properties window, click the
Edit button. The
Edit Items window appears.
Enter the desired information in the attributes you added and click
Save.

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Now, search CES for the component you just
introduced. In the Search Results window select the new component,
right-click and select Properties. In the
Properties window go to
the PLM Profile tab.
You can see the new attributes, with the information you entered and
saved in the Edit Items
window.
