Lateral Navigation (Virtual Compound Document)

Lateral Navigation is a way of creating a virtual compound document.

Suppose you created a compound document with two documents in it. Compound document A1 has documents C1 and C2. Now you check them in for the first time to create A1: A.0, C1: A.0 and C2: A.0. You check out documents C1 and C2 several times and create their versions A.2. The Compound document A1: A.0 is still pointing to documents C1 and C2 of Version A.0.

In the checkout page of the Compound Document A1: A.0, you see the tree with documents in A.0. Suppose you want to move to document versions C1 A.1 and C2 A.2, you can select the combo box of the Versions in the Checkout page and change them. Check out Compound Document A1 with A.0 version, document C1 with A.1 version, and document C2 with A.2 version. This structure does not exist in ENOVIA but virtually can be created during checkout.

With the help of the virtual assembly feature, you can re-use almost all referenced files checked into ENOVIA. You can create many combinations and re-use all referenced files in ENOVIA.