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The CES Approval Settings at either the user or group level decide the behavior of certain functionalities of CES Approval, and which items are visible to which user. The approval status of a user or a group only affects internal items. Not all users should have access to all items in all states. The CES Administrator can control which users and user groups can access which CES internal items, based on the Approval Status of a user or user group. User settings are stored in the CES database. You can access the CES Settings class using Admin Browser or the CES HTML Client. Among the User Settings, either the User pointer or the User Group pointer must be set for each user. If a user has both the User pointer and the User Group pointer set, the user level settings override the group level settings. All CES setting values are cached at login in a hash table, based on approval state keys. This hash table is stored in the session. The approval state keys are:
The corresponding approval states are represented as name-value pairs. The name-value mapping is maintained in the Alias Variables class in the CES database. The name-value pairs are:
Any Administrative changes to the settings take effect in the next session. There is no re-synchronization of the cache. Any User edits to the settings will clear the cache immediately and reload the new settings. Please note however, that not all settings are editable by users. The IsEditable field indicates whether a settings is editable. By default CSM_USER, CES_ADMIN, and CES_DESIGN_ADMIN user groups are provided with the approval settings. |
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When new users are created in ENOVIA V5 VPM and synchronized with CES, the users should be mapped to a group, or the user settings should be configured for the users. In order for filtering of internal items to work, all internal item configurations must have the Approval Status field of the Item to PLM Item class set. For any search on an internal item, the Approval Status of the current user is obtained from the CES Settings. If the user's approval status equals or exceeds the Approval Status on an internal item, that internal item is included in the search. This feature is available only in R17 SP2 and later. |