About Microsoft Windows Explorer Integration

ENOVIA has integrated Microsoft® Windows Explorer into a product that enables the user to manage and navigate to documents and information in ENOVIA.

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Microsoft Windows Explorer Integration Interface

You can perform the following functions using Microsoft Windows Explorer Integration

Menu Description
Login

Enables you to gain access to the ENOVIA database.

You only have to log in once to establish a session with the ENOVIA server. When accessing other application there is no need to supply user credentials again.

See Logging In and Out

Note: You only have to log in once per Windows session.

Logout

Enables you to log out when you are done working by selecting Logout from the dropdown list.

Note: If you log out, your connection with ENOVIA is ended for all applications.

Logging In and Out

Open

Enables you to open documents to view and update them in Microsoft Office enables you to open a document in the relevant application. See Opening a Document from ENOVIA

Lock Enables you to lock a document so that only you can work on that document while it is locked. You can unlock the document as well. (Right click on a document and select Lock from the dropdown list. Lock and Unlock are toggle selections.) See Locking and Unlocking Documents
Delete Enables you to delete the last revision of the document. You can delete the document if you delete the only revision. See Deleting Document Revisions
Revise Document

Involves revising a document with files and without files. See Creating Document Revisions

  • Login
  • Revise with files: A document can have more than one file attached to it. When you revise a document with files the system saves the document with the last version of each attached file.
  • Revise without files: You create a new revision of document without any files attached to it.

View Attributes

You can see the following information about a document:


  • Details View, which contains attributes in a profile card
  • Information about a document, such as previous revisions and versions
Revisions / Versions

Shows document revisions and versions for each document object.

Document objects are managed by revisions; the files attached to document objects are managed by version.

When a file that is attached to a document object is updated, it is assigned a new version. When a document object is updated it can be updated with attached files or without attached files.

If the document object is updated with multiple attached files, the latest version of each file is attached to the new revision of the document object. This means each file can have a different version.

See Viewing Revision and Version Information
Preferences Enables you to change the look and feel of the interface by changing skins and the location of the downloaded files known as the Working Folder. See Modifying User Preferences
Search

Enables you to search for documents saved in the ENOVIA database. See Performing Searches