Understanding the LifeCycle Interface

Each LifeCycle application, such as Product Class Editor, has a similar user interface.  There are three main features which you must understand:

 
 

Icons and Buttons, which allow you to execute commands, are available in the ENOVIA Portal and in horizontal and vertical toolbars specific to the LifeCycle application.  The ENOVIA Home icon, which you selected before you opened Product Class Editor in the previous exercise, is an example of an ENOVIA Portal icon.

The New button, in Product Class Editor's horizontal toolbar, is an example of an application-specific button.  If you are unsure what a button does, hold your cursor over the button to display the button name.

 

Shortcut menus are displayed by right-clicking in a particular pane. The shortcut menus are also used to perform functions related to the active application.

 

Fields are used to display information or to accept information which you enter.  Some fields enable you to enter information by typing.  Other fields provide a pull-down menu which enables you to select information for the field.  Pull-down menus are indicated by a down-arrow at the end of the field.

If you open another LifeCycle application, that application also displays in the ENOVIA Portal.  Previously opened applications remain open, and can be accessed by selecting the associated tabs at the bottom of the ENOVIA Portal window.

Opening a Shortcut Menu

Follow the steps below to open a shortcut menu in Product Class Editor:

  1. Open Product Class Editor

  2. Select an object in the Product Class tree.

  3. Right-click the mouse.  A shortcut menu appears.

  4. Once the shortcut menu appears, select any menu option to execute the selected command.

Short-cut menus are not available in every pane.  For example, if you are creating a new document in Content Management, the Document Create Form pane is displayed next to the Content tree.  If you right-click in the Document Create Form pane, nothing happens because there is not a shortcut menu available for this pane.

The next exercise describes how to perform a basic task in Product Class Editor