Overall Client View

Below is the overall view of the web client with its different sections after successful login and after the user has opened a project; see 3.2 for opening existing projects and for creating local projects.

Figure 3. Navigation Page
The above figure shows the EDMtruePLM project page. Below is a short description of the numbered items of Figure 3:

  1. System menu button: Includes project selection, project administration, system info etc.
  2. Offline help document: a PDF version of the online document for the given version
  3. User info: It shows user details such as user, role, name, email and organization
  4. Project menu: Functionalities that will be available to the current active project
  5. Breadcrumb address bar: The path to the selected element within the breakdown structure
  6. Breakdown parent node name: The name of the parent element and some other information about the element
  7. Breakdown structure: Representation of the product elements and their data files, shows the child element
  8. Context menu of current node: Includes all functionality for the current node
  9. Context menu of child node: Includes functions for child nodes, such as copy, move etc.
  10. Breakdown properties: System defined meta data of the selected breakdown element
  11. Document properties: System defined meta data of the selected document
  12. Product properties: System defined meta data of the selected product
  13. User defined properties: Properties of the current node that were defined by the user (see "Reference data").

Closing tabs

Additional tabs that appear, for example, after a search, are closed by a right-click on the tab and selecting the "Close tab" option.

Figure 4. Closing tabs