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As Administrator, you can search the classes of the databases using the Power Search application of the Administrative Desktop Utility, or you can search them directly from VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web, using the Admin Browser. For more information about the Power Search application, refer to Power Search. VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web uses the Relationship Navigator functionality to let you view databases, assemblies, parts, etc. graphically, as a tree structure. This allows you to visualize relationships between classes and subclasses, or assemblies and subparts. Each node in the tree that represents an intermediate class or folder can be expanded to display its leaf classes. Within the CES database, the leaf classes can be searched for properties (attributes) of the respective class. To view the classes of the CES database, you must send the Admin Browser to the Relationship Navigator. For Engineering processes, you can use Admin Browser to:
For Sourcing processes, you can use Category Browser to:
Once you have selected a class to search, the CES Admin Search panes appears. In this pane you can:
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This task explains how to search the database using Admin Browser: |
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