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Start CATIA. Login to ENOVIA
V5 VPM
and CES. For more information on logging in, refer to
Logging in to ENOVIA V5 VPM in CATIA and
Accessing CES Functionality.
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Click the
Search CES Database
button. The
Sourcing Search window appears.
The top portion of the window contains the Sourcing Search Criteria
and the Simple and Standard tabs. The bottom portion contains the
Category Browser, a graphical representation of the categories of
information that are available, on the Tree View tab, and the Attribute Based Category Search,
on the List View tab. You can use the Category Browser to
narrow your search by selecting one of the category nodes in which to
search. For more information, refer to
Category Browser. You
can use the Attribute Base
Category Search, located on the List View
tab to locate categories based on attribute name and category name. For
more information, refer to Attribute Base
Category Search.


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Enter search criteria
appropriate for your database in the
Search From:, Type:,
and Search Form: text
fields. Right click the Right Arrow button
to the right of any of the
attributes and select Valid Values.

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The CES Valid Values window appears. The
Available values
pane contains the list of valid values for the attribute you selected.
You can order this list in either ascending or descending order in the
Sort section. In addition, you can have the list include only unique
values or all values of the attribute used by all items. Listing all
values will include duplicate values if more than one item uses that
attribute value.

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To see the number of available values, click
Item Count.
This also shows you the number of pages.

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Select one or more available values and click the
Right
Arrow
button to move the selected values into the
Selected values pane.

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Click OK to set the attribute selected in the
Sourcing
Search window to the values you just selected in the
CES Valid Values
window.

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Notice that if you selected multiple values, those values
are all included in the attribute text field and are combined using the
OR operator.

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Back in the Sourcing Search window, select another
attribute to set. Right-click on the Right Arrow
button and select
Valid
Values. In the CES Valid Values window you will see a list of available
values. Select Qualified in the
Valid value type section. Place an
asterisk (*) in the Search text box and click on
Search. This gives you a
list of available values for this attribute, given that you have already
set the value for another attribute.

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The new list of available values may change, as in this
example. Now, select one or more values in the
Available values pane and
click the Right Arrow button to move the
values into the Selected values
pane. Click OK to set the attribute value(s).

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In the Sourcing Search
window click OK to perform
the search. The Sourcing Search Results
window appears.
