Understanding VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web and Information Flow

This section contains the following information about VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web and information flow:

About VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web and Information Flow
VPM Lifecycle Navigator WEB User Interface
Beginning Work

About VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web and Information Flow

VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web is a web-based client application that offers a dynamic environment for conducting collaborative engineering and design review projects. In order to access ENOVIA V5 source through VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web, you need to log on to the application.

The VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web user interface provides a means of accessing information from a variety of sources. For example, it offers standard and advanced search capabilities as well as quick access to saved search criteria and business objects. It provides you with the ability to attend meetings and conduct chats within your enterprise using collaborative messaging tools. In addition, it provides viewers, and interfaces such as Relationship Navigator and User Home Page.

VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web User Interface

 

VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web is divided into different areas and panes. Each of them have a specific location, behavior and purpose. This section will provide you with an overview on the different areas and panes of VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web.

The top section of VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web, the Status bar and Main Access area, have fixed sizes within the browser and you are unable to modify them. 

However, you can move the vertical and horizontal borders between the Favorites and Community panes and the Navigation and Viewer and User Interaction panes, to modify the width or height of these panes. 

The descriptions of the different areas and panes and their purposes are listed below:

Area/Pane Description

Status Bar

You can view system generated messages based on the various transactions you complete within VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web. For example, if you perform a transfer on an object, a message appears in this area indicating whether the transfer was successful or unsuccessful.

Main Access Area

You can perform the following tasks using this area:

  • Click Logout to close your session.

  • Click Administrative and Preferences to establish or change administration and table preferences.

  • Perform a Quick Search.

  • Click the Advanced Access link, or or to create objects, or perform standard and advanced searches.

  • Click the Help button to access online documentation on the application.

Favorites Pane

This pane contains folders that you can use to bookmark objects and search criteria for quick retrieval.

Explore  Pane

This pane assists you in the navigation of product structures by giving you a tree view of the product.

Navigation and Viewer Pane

This pane remains open for the entire session. A drop-down list on the left side of the Navigation and Viewer pane offers access to the following windows:

  • User Home Page: Allows you to view and perform operations on the objects you own.

  • Relationship Navigator: Allows you to navigate and operate on any object and its relationship objects.

  • 2D Viewer: Allows you to view 2D drawings.

  • 3D Viewer: Allows you to view 3D parts, products and models.

Community Pane

This pane enables you to conduct your collaborative meetings and chat using collaborative messaging tools.

User Interaction Pane

This area is dedicated to any window required for user inputs, some of them being Properties, Advanced Access, Search Results, Transfer, and Change Status. 

It contains a list of selectable dialogs to help you work with multiple data simultaneously. You can navigate using from one dialog box to another by using the Next and Previous buttons.

When you select an operation outside the User Interaction pane (by clicking , Advanced Access, , or send objects from Favorites, User Home Page, Relationship Navigator) all the windows are closed, and the displayed window is the only one in the list. When closing this window the User Interaction pane closes and the Navigation and Viewer pane takes up the entire Work Area.
 

Beginning Work

 

You can begin work in VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web in any of the following ways:

  1. The Advanced Access Area can be a useful and common place to begin your work in VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web.  Whether you are searching or creating objects, this window facilitates you, the user, by offering an array of functionality.  To access the Advanced Access window, navigate to the Main Access Area.  From here, you can click on one of these three options:  Search, Create, or the Advanced Access link.  From this window, you can click any of the three tabs that you need to begin your process.

     

  2. If you the recipient of an email, notifying you of an action or process, you can click the email link contained within the email to launch the object in the Properties window of VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web.

     

     


     

  3. You can click a bookmark appearing under the My Network folder in the Favorites pane.

     

     

  4. You can open User Home Page and show the objects types.