Lifecycle Overview
SmarTeam - Web Editor enables you to maintain and manage any information related to a revision-manageable object throughout its lifecycle.
By mirroring the physical process of product management, SmarTeam - Web Editor uses vaults, check in, check out, and release functions to manage the Lifecycle revision manageable documents. It creates new versions of a file and protects it from unauthorized modifications.
SmarTeam - Web Editor provides for the Lifecycle management of an object together with all its components (children). This functionality is crucial for correct management of an assembly or part and all its sub-assemblies. SmarTeam - Web Editor enables you to perform any revision operation on an object and all its children simultaneously using Propagate operation and Propagate Settings.
This section is divided into:
- Lifecycle Types provides a description of the lifecycle processes available for different types of objects.
- Lifecycle Basic Concepts provides a general description of the SmarTeam - Web Editor Lifecycle management options.
- Lifecycle Options provides a brief description of the options available for part and document lifecycles.
- Lifecycle Icons describes each of the icons of the part and document lifecycle states.
- Managing an Assembly provides instructions for using Lifecycle options to manage an object and all its children.
- The following icons represent lifecycle operations: describes additional lifecycle operations that can be performed on a document or part.
- Managing Associated Objects describes how to view and manage objects that were previously linked to one another.
- Common File Objects describes how to work with common file objects in SmarTeam - Web Editor.
- Lifecycle Evaluation Report describes the utility that displays error and warning messages if it not be possible to carry out a Lifecycle operation.
All these sections are relevant for all types of lifecycle processes. Specific document and item lifecycle operations are described below.