Overview

 

 About CES Enterprise Catalog Management

 

Welcome to the ENOVIA CES Enterprise Catalog Management User Guide. This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the product.

This overview provides the following information:

VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web in a Nutshell

VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web is a Web based client application based on a new modular infrastructure. It offers quick access to information from a variety of sources. For example, it offers search and advanced search capabilities as well as quick access to saved search criteria and business objects. In addition, it provides an easy to use relationship navigator and a choice of 2D and 3D viewers. Moreover, VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web facilitates collaboration through community and collaborative tools.

With VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web you can access the database, view object information, navigate through object relationships, and stay up to date on concurrent product development activities. In addition, VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web offers a breakthrough in object navigation with the Relationship Navigator. It facilitates navigation through related data regardless of the object types. With this capability, you can understand the often complex relationships between an engineering change, the proposed changed part, the graphical models of the part, the owner, the maturity status and whether or not the part is used in multiple product lines.

Through VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web, enterprise users can be involved with basic engineering activities such as DMU review and collaborate with other members of the extended enterprise. Both 2D and 3D graphical viewers are available for performing review and annotation on a digital mockup. In addition, event publish and subscribe are available to enable users to receive notification of events generated by design changes and product releases.

Before Reading this Guide

This guide should help you become familiar with basic VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web concepts such as windows, panes, and buttons.

You may also want to read the following related product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:

  • CES Enterprise Catalog Administration

  • CES Enterprise Catalog Navigator

  • CES Component Introduction Management

  • CES Component Reuse

  • CES Component Sourcing

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step Getting Started scenarios. These scenarios will show you how to log in and out of the application, as well as locate and create objects in the VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web database.

Once you have finished, you should move on to the User Tasks section, which deals with handling all the product functions.

The Workbench Description section, which describes the VPM Lifecycle Navigator Web workbench, will also certainly prove useful.

Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct access from the table of contents to the information.