Welcome to the ENOVIA CES Component Introduction 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:
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CES Enterprise Catalog Administration
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CES Enterprise Catalog Navigator
-
CES Enterprise Catalog 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
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