Overview

ENOVIA Manufacturer Equivalent Part Management™ is a shared component that provides access to creating, editing, and managing parts defined as equivalents to an application part.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with the shared components installed with all ENOVIA applications that provide consistency of features across all applications. Common features allow ENOVIA applications to manage information such as user and company profiles, documents, and routes, based on company roles rather than on the application used. For details, see the Common Components User's Guide (or review the Common Components Help).

For details on how the user interface works and the common tools such as search, filters, printer-friendly pages, sorting, structure navigator, export, and charting found throughout all ENOVIA applications, see the Application Exchange Framework User's Guide (or review the AEF Help).

Common feature behaviors that are unique to Manufacturer Equivalent Part Management are described in this user's guide.

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 user tasks, which cover all product functionality.

The conventions used in this guide and within the application are:

  • Remove/Delete—In this guide and within the application, the term delete is used to refer to an action that deletes an item from the database, which means the item is no longer available for viewing or choosing. The term remove is used to refer to an action that disconnects one item from another. The disconnected item is still in the database and is still available for connecting to another item and viewing.
  • Add/Create—Similar to the remove/delete distinction, adding means to connect or associate an existing item to another item. Create means to add an item to the database.

You can get help on the Manufacturer Equivalent Part Management page you are working with by clicking on the page. A separate help window opens that displays the help topic for the page along with a navigable table of contents for the user's guide.

Note: Published examples in this document, including but not limited to scripts, programs, and related items, are intended to provide some assistance to customers by example. They are for demonstration purposes only. It does not imply an obligation for ENOVIA to provide examples for every published platform, or for every potential permutation of platforms/products/versions/etc.

Related Documentation

In addition to this guide, refer to the following documentation for information about Manufacturer Equivalent Part Management and ENOVIA product features in general.

User Documentation


  • Online Help. After logging into the application, click the Help tool in the toolbar of any page to access online help.
  • Common Components User's Guide. This guide describes features common to ENOVIA products, such as company and user profile management, document management, discussions, issues, and route processing.
  • Application Exchange Framework User's Guide. This guide describes common features such as IconMail, generic searching, collections, and preferences.

Administrator Documentation

ENOVIA provides the following administrator documentation:


  • Program Directory. Each version of the application comes with media that include the program directory for that release. The program directory is a website that organizes all the release information for all Dassault Systemes products for a given release. It contains information about prerequisites, installation, licensing, product enhancements, general issues, open issues, documentation addenda, and closed issues.
  • Live Collaboration Administrator's Guide. This guide explains how Business Administrators can configure Business Process Services. This guide is for people in the host company who will configure the application. Some understanding of Studio Modeling Platform products, such as Matrix Navigator and Business Modeler, is required.
  • Live Collaboration Schema Reference guide. This guide describes the schema and data models that underlie the ENOVIA products.
  • Studio Modeling Configuration Guide.This guide provides the details required to develop a custom program using the Business Process Services framework.