Overview

ENOVIA Product Line Management is a powerful product management tool that allows you to create, modify, and work with product lines, products, models, portfolios, builds and other associated objects. You can perform various functions associated with the management of these objects, such as defining and modifying tasks, and promoting tasks to the next level for approval. You can also view the products and information associated with these to monitor their progress.

This User's Guide is intended for users who need quickly to become familiar with the ENOVIA Product Line Management product.

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 BPS - Common Components User's Guide.

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 BPS - AEF User's Guide.

Common feature behaviors that are unique to ENOVIA Product Line 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 Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to ENOVIA Variant Configuration Central, will also certainly prove useful.

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 ENOVIA Product Line 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. The help window also contains links for BPS - Common Components Help and BPS - AEF Help.

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.