What's New?

Overview

About LCA CES Enterprise Catalog Administration Guide

About Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing

CES in a Nutshell

Getting Most out of This Guide

Before Using This Guide

Conventions

Getting Started

Accessing CES Functionality

Logging in to ENOVIA V5 in CATIA

CES Licensing

Tools Options for CES

User Tasks

ENOVIA V5 VPM/CES Database Server Administration - Oracle

Populating the CES Database

Administering Database

Starting Database

Shutting Database

Dropping Database

Re-creating/Recompiling the Packages

Changing Password

Generating init.ora File

Scripts

Analyzing Database Objects and Managing Indexes

Update Statistics

Drop Indexes

Create Indexes

Oracle Text Search

About Oracle Text Search

Installing Oracle Text Search Option

Language Specific Preferences for Text

Space Requirements for Text Index

Creating and Dropping Indexes

Text Index Maintenance

Thesaurus

Extensible Query Optimizer

Known Problems

Managing CES Object

Class Maintenance

Delete License Monitor Class Records

View Orphan Classes

Tuning Guidelines for Oracle Database

Enhancements in CES Database Server

License Monitor Class

Initialization Parameters made Obsolete in Oracle Release 10g

Case Insensitive Properties

Maximum Number of Objects Attribute

Is Unused in Search Attribute

System Performance

Bitmap Index Management

ENOVIA/CES Database Server Administration - DB2

Creating Database/Upgrading to 9.1.9 Level

Tablespaces

Prerequisites for Creating Database

Creating Empty CES Database

Execute DB Creation

Loading Seed Data

Explore Database Version

Managing CES Object

Maintaining Class

Rebuilding Invalid Views

Estimating Tablespace Size

Viewing Orphan Classes

Net Search Extender

About Net Search Extender

Text Index Management

Database Administration

Backing up Database

Activating/Deactivating Database

Dropping Database

Exporting Database

Importing Database

View Registry Variables

View Database Manager Configuration Parameters

View Database Configuration Parameters

View Tablespaces

Managing Regular Index

Recommended Indexes

Create/Drop Indexes

Usage Notes

Changing Default Index Tablespace for Class

Data Type INTEGER in Logical Data Type Definition Class

Analyzing Database Objects

Analyzing Entire CISDBA Schema

Analyzing all Classes

Analyzing all Indexes

Rebinding Packages

CES Administration Desktop User Documentation

Search

Search Overview

Searching for a Class

Viewing Items in a Class

Creating a New Item in a Class

Using Power Search

Editing Items in a Class

Results Page

Valid Values

Edit Page

Bulk Update

Item Details Page

Comparing Class Items

Working with Notes

Working with Attachments

Managing Users and User Groups

User/Group Administration Overview

User Admin Tasks

Managing Groups Associated with a User

User Group Admin Tasks

Managing Groups Associated with a User Group

Approval Settings for Users and User Groups

Permissions Administration

Permissions Administration Overview

Types of Permissions

Class Permissions

Object Permissions

Property Permissions

Read Security Permissions

Forms Editor

Forms Editor Overview

Default and Detail Forms

User Interface Details

Creating Search/Results Forms

Creating Edit Forms

Editing Simple and Compound Form

Deleting Simple or Compound Form

Customizing Properties of Class

Publishing Forms

CES Data Modeler

Changes to the CES Data Model

Data Modeling Concepts

CES Data Modeler Features

Changing Default Data Modeler Settings

Browsing Class Hierarchy

Editing Data Model

Maintaining Data Model

Advanced Data Modeling Tasks

Working With Data Model Files in Offline Mode

Working With Data Model Files in Online Mode

Comparing Data Models

Defining and Displaying Custom Help

Index Tablespace Name Attribute of the Class

CES Java Server Administration

Overview

Maintaining the CES Java Server using the Administration Utility

Accessing the Administration Utility

Changing the Administrator Password

Server Information

Server Configurations

Server Log Files

Database Configurations

Creating a New Database Configuration

Changing Database Configuration

Duplicating a Database Configuration

Deleting a Database Configuration

Changing a Database Password

Setting the Connection Mode

Server Caches

Expressions

What Is An Expression

Need for Expressions

Key Features of Expressions

Expression Management Data Model

Expression Types

Creating Expressions - Tutorial

Triggering Expressions in Batch Mode

CES DBLoad Administration

Updating the CES Database Automatically

Using DBLoad

Setting Up Data File

Creating Options Section of Data File

Creating Transactions Section of Data File

Adding Comments in Data Files

Files Created During Data File Processing

Error Handling

Performance Related Options

Transaction Formats

About Transaction Types

insertRandom Transaction Format

updateRandom Transaction Format

deleteRandom Transaction Format

moveRandom

insertTextRandom Transaction Format

updateTextRandom Transaction Format

deleteTextRandom Transaction Format

Invalidating Server Cache in DBLoad

exportRandom Transaction Format

exportClassRandom Transaction Format

exportModelRandom Transaction Format

exportFolderModelRandom Transaction Format

Exporting and Importing Data in XML Format

Overview

Exporting Data

Importing Data

Understanding Error Messages

Administrative Tasks in VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web

Searching Classes Using Admin Browser

Viewing Search Results in Admin Browser

Editing Classes Using Admin Browser

Customizing CES

Customizing the View of the Properties Window

Customizing CES in Admin Desktop

Creating New Class Attributes

Creating New Search or Result Forms

Adding a PLM Instance to CES

Adding PLM Projects to CES

Customizing the Item to PLM Item Class

Glossary

Index