Identifying the State of Design in CATIA V5

After you have connected to ENOVIA using ENOVIA > Connect in CATIA, icons may appear on nodes of the product structure tree, when using ENOVIA Collaborative Design for CATIA V5. The CATIA Specification tree uses icons to display the status of the documents in the server. These status icons can be used to ascertain whether it is okay to modify some document in session, by comparing the revision in session with the latest available revision in the ENOVIA V6 server.

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Refreshing Document Status
This section lists the icons and the relevant status of the document:
Icon Status Description
New

The document is new in the CATIA session. (There is no file for this document yet.) Documents which are new in a CATIA session cannot be checked into ENOVIA. They must be saved to the local disk first.


Up-to date or latest without lock The object in current session is not locked in ENOVIA. The object opened in session is the latest (Major revision and Minor version) available in ENOVIA V6.


Up-to date or latest with lock by a different user. The object in current session is locked in ENOVIA by another user. The object opened in session is the latest (Major revision and Minor version) available in ENOVIA V6.


Up-to date or latest with lock by the current user. The object in current session is locked in ENOVIA by the current user. The object opened in session is the latest (Major revision and Minor version) available in ENOVIA V6.


NOT LATEST This status indicates that a later Major revision or Minor version of the object open in current session is available in ENOVIA V6.


Read only The document is in read-only mode.


Read only but modified The document contains modifications within the session, although it is open in read-only mode. Caution: There is a risk of losing modifications.


Read only but modified by product structure synchronization This document is in read-only mode, but the product structure below it was modified since the last time it was saved. The product structure is mirrored inside the document and automatically synchronized when opened. Technically, the document is modified, but it is not necessary to save the modifications, as synchronization happens anyway at the next Open.


File changed since open The file from which this document was loaded has been modified externally. (It has been overwritten.) If this icon is visible for a document checked out from ENOVIA, you might have a different version of the document checked out to the same location, or you might have modified the document on disk by some means other than a CATIA session. In either case, these actions are not recommended and may cause the loss of your modifications.


Broken Link on Partial Checkout CATIA cannot locate this file on disk and hence is unable to resolve this link. This shows that the assembly is incomplete or has been checked out partially.

Partial checkout occurs when you select only some components of an assembly structure. When performing Partial Checkout, the non-selected documents in the Checkout page are not transferred in the checkout directory.

When opening the top document in CATIA session, this icon is displayed in CATIA spec tree. The green color on the top right corner indicates that though this link is broken on disk, the document can be found in the ENOVIA V6 database.

Once the missing document is checked out, the broken link is resolved and is replaced with .

The integration can work in a mode where the lock status of ENOVIA objects are reflected by the read/write status of the files on disk (see ENOVIA Collaborative Design for CATIA V5 Administrator's Guide : CatSetReadWriteAccessBasedOnLockUnLockOptions). In this mode, documents which are not locked by the user will be accessible for read only, and therefore the read-only icons described above will appear on them.