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Start CATIA. Login to ENOVIA
V5 VPM
and CES. For more information on logging in, refer to
Logging in to ENOVIA V5 VPM in CATIA and
Accessing CES Functionality.
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Click the
Search CES Database
button. The
Sourcing Search window appears.
The top portion of the window contains the Sourcing Search Criteria
and the Simple and Standard tabs. The bottom portion contains the
Category Browser, a graphical representation of the categories of
information that are available, and the Attribute Based Category Search. You can use the Category Browser to
narrow your search by selecting one of the category "nodes" in which to
search. For more information, refer to
Category Browser. You
can use the Attribute Base
Category Search, located on the List View
tab to locate categories based on attribute name and category name. For
more information, refer to Attribute Base
Category Search.


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In the
Sourcing Search window, select Supplemental Information
in the Search From:
dropdown list, select Items - Supplier
in the Type: dropdown list, and
select All Items in the
Search Form: dropdown
list. On the Standard Search tab, enter the appropriate attribute values, using
Valid Values,
Query
Builder or direct entry. In this example the search is
for supplier items in which the Supplier
Item Description includes "GATE"

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To save this search,
click the
Save Search
button. The CES Save Search window appears.

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Enter the name of the search
in the Search name edit
box and click Save.
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Back in the
Sourcing Search window, click
OK. The following
Sourcing Search Results window
appears.

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Close the
Sourcing Search Results window and
click the Search CES Database
button in the CES toolbar to display the
Sourcing Search window
again. Once
you save one search, the Manage Searches
button is enabled. Back in the Sourcing
Search window, enter information for a new search. This
example is searching for Manufacturer Items that contain "GATE" in the
Manufacturer Item Description.

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Click
Save Search and in the
CES Save Search window
enter the name of the search to save. Click
Save.

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Once you have saved the
search, click the Manage Searches
button in the Sourcing Search
window. The Manage Saved Searches
window appears. Select the first search saved in this example and
click Load Search.

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The
Sourcing Search window is
updated with the information stored in the loaded search, as shown
below. You can verify the search by clicking
OK and looking at the results in
the Sourcing Search Results window.

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With the saved search loaded,
you can edit it. Change the saved criteria. For this example
Supplier Item starting with "X"
has been added. Click Save
Search.

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The
CES Save Search window appears. Save this edited
search using the same name as the search you just loaded.

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Back in the
Sourcing Search window, click
Manage Searches. The
Manage Saved Searches
window appears.

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Highlight the name of the
search you just edited and click Rename.

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In the
Rename Search window, change the
name of the search and click OK.
For this example Gate_Supplier_Search has been changed to
Gate_Supplier_X_Search.

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Back in the
Manage Saved Searches window, you
can see the changes that you made. Now, still in the
Manage Saved Searches window,
select one of the searches you saved, and click Delete.
The verification window
appears to verify deleting the searches. Click
Yes.


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In the
Manage Saved Searches window you
can see that one saved search has been removed and the other saved
search remains.
