CMS fat client

Starting CMS and creating a new workspace

To start CMS Fat Client and create new workspace or open an existing workspace, double click on icon , appearing at the end of installation process.

Opening existing database

To open an existing database, choose menu item File > Open and select the file in navigation window:

After pressing Open button, CMS will ask for a password, this is a password, which protects *.pft files from unauthorized use. Then user login and password will be asked, these are parameters, which are used to authenticate CMS user.

Saving database

To save CMS database, use File > Save or File > Save as functionalities.

Note: these functionalities allow local save, which means that database is saved in a file on disk.

When saving a file for the first time, CMS requires defining a password. It is possible to change

it later by using File > Change Password function.

= Project Explorer =

Project Explorer Window

The Project Explorer window (opened by default with vCMS main window) allows browsing between folders (like in Windows environment). All the items are grouped in folders, enabling a comfortable navigation of the tree.

Project Explorer has a set of function buttons, which affect the contents of data shown:

• Button

     allows expanding or collapsing Project Explorer tree.

• Button

     allows showing or hiding models in Project Explorer tree.

• Button

     allows showing or hiding objects in Project Explorer tree, all objects

are shown in single special node of tree Objects:

• Button

     allows showing or hiding objects in Project Explorer tree, objects are

shown in their folders:

• Button

     allows

showing or hiding unused objects (objects, which don’t occur is any model) in Project Explorer tree, all unused objects are shown in single special node of tree Objects:

• Button

     allows

configuring object filter for Project Explorer tree, only objects matching filtering conditions will be shown in tree. Explained in Filtering.

• Button

     allows

configuring model filter for Project Explorer tree, only models matching filtering conditions will be shown in tree. Explained in Filtering. Project Explorer window can be switched in alternative mode by pressing  button. In this case it will be hidden automatically and related tab will be shown:

Moving mouse pointer over this tab will force Project Explorer to be shown. Pressing  button will switch Project Explorer in usual mode:

Filtering

As mentioned above, Project Explorer allows filtering objects and models shown in tree.

Object Filter

Object filtering window looks like the following:

On first tab user can specify simple object filtering criteria:

• The name of object, additionally match Whole word, Case-sensitive
• The text in Full name, Description, Remark or Attribute value
• Filter by Creator and Creation

period (from/to)

• Filter by last update User and Modification

period (from/to)

• Specify if object should have or not variants, by default it is set to any