The Manager UI Structure and sub pages

The Manager UI has the following areas

• Tenant Selection
• Admin
• View Changelog
• Give Feedback
• Documentation
• Data Insights [ROADMAP]
• Logout

Tenant selection

If you have access rights to multiple tenants and you have not selected tenant in the login URL, the Manager shows you a listing of tenants you have access to and in order for you to enter, you must click on the tenant icon. Note that the tenant names in the picture are obfuscated.

Continue reading onwards from the manager ui after tenant selection

Admin [ROADMAP]

Note

This feature is in our roadmap and will be documented here when released

Administrative view is available to VividWorks Admin and Tenant Admin users. The difference of these roles is that Tenant Admin is a user that does not necessarily work for VividWorks, but is a person in your organization responsible for administering the tenant.

View Changelog

We deploy updates continuously around atleast as once per two weeks. These updates includes completely new features, improvements to existing features and fixes to bugs and issues. You can see these updates from the changelog widget.

Give Feedback

In order for us to learn more about your needs and issues, we've added a way for you to share your needs, upvote somebody elses feedback to raise it's importance and also inform of issues you have.

Documentation

The documentation library is made available as a link and as youre reading this, you have found the documentation.

Data Insights [ROADMAP]

Note

This feature is in our roadmap and will be documented here when released

Logout

With the logout button, you log out of the Manager UI and have to login again in order to have access to system.

The Manager UI after tenant selection

Once you select a tenant, then the following pages are available

• Home
• Products
• 3D Scene
• Translations

initially, you will land on the "Home" page, which is empty at the moment.

Home

[ROADMAP]

Home is pretty empty now, but eventually will contain overview of the tenant status and some key statistics from the tenant itself.

Note

This feature is in our roadmap and will be documented here when released

Products

When you enter your tenant and dont have any product libraries defined your product screen looks like

In order to use all the functionality of the Manager, you should create a product library by clicking the Create Product Libary button.

The Management UI in Product view contains three areas

1. The Product Menu bar
2. The Product Tree view panel
3. The Item Property view panel

The Product Tree view panel

In the product tree view panel contains information about products and items under the product in form of a parent-child relationship through which the system knows which items are considered elements of the product.

In one product library, many products can be configured, and they may share or not share configuration with each other.

The Item property view panel

For each item in the Product Tree view panel, the specific configuration parameters of that item will be listed and edited in the Item property view panel.

The panel content depends on the selected item on the Product Tree view panel. You can read about the specific properties from the Property set documentation

Product Menu bar

The Product menu bar contains most useful controls when developing the product.

The Menu bar consists of the following items

1. Create Product Library
2. Delete Product Library
3. Upload New Asset
4. Regenerate Runtime Products
5. Open Webapp for 'product'
6. View 'product'
7. View Product Library Version History
8. Status indicator

Create Product Library

With this button you can create new product libraries. They would contain all the relevant configuration for a set of products or product.

Delete Product Library

With this button you will delete a product library in full after confirming the deletion by providing the name of the product library in the confirmation dialogue.

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NOTE

Deletion of product library cannot be undone. This should only be done if you really know you no longer need the product library

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Upload new asset

There are two ways to upload assets into a product library. Using the Upload new Asset button opens upload modal that permists you to upload assets into the configurator.

These assets are further explained in Introduction to content

Regenerate Runtime Products

For the time being, you will be heavily using this button. When ever you want to view some configuration in the 3D scene ("view 'product'" or 'Open Webapp for 'product'"), you need to regenerate runtime products and when using 'Open Webapp for 'product'' you need to also publish the product using the publish button on the product configuration view.

We recommend using View during development and regenerating runtime products before viewing the results.

Open Webapp for 'product'

With this button you will emulate production mode for product and view the Planner as a buyer would, without the website/e-commerce platform as container. The Planner will open in a new tab and will consume the whole browser window as it's not contained in a DIV element. If you have not selected a product in the product tree view, the button will not appear and if you havent published a product, the planner will not be able to load a configuration into view.

View 'product'

With this button you open 3D scene in the Manager to view the configuration settings, but not through production mode. This is very useful when configuring the products and setting up 3D parameters of parts, accessories and materials as you can view the outcomes, return to edit and view the outcomes. The button only appears if a product is selected in the product tree view

View Product Library Version History

You can view the author and time of edits from the Product Library View Version History and roll-back to an older version of the changes in case you have made an unrecoverable error.

Note

The roll-back to old version forks the version history tree and you have no way to change back to the previous step. Use this feature with caution.

Status indicator

The status indicator will tell if an operation is on-going (spinner) or if the configuration is saved and is up-to-date.

3D Scene

You cant select the 3D Scene without selecting product, so entering here is not really useful. Use the "View" button on the Management UI product menu bar

Translations

In order to support buyers worldwide, the Planner is made localizable. This means that all visible texts can be translated to as many languages as needed and when deploying the Planner, you can give instruction which locale is to be used. Default is US-en which is also used in case localization does not exists. Note also that there are system default conventions that you have to define as well.

In order to select which languages are shown in the various parts of the Manager, you can select languages that you will support from the selection menu.

The listing of locales is opened as a modal where you can toggle on/off the locales you want to support. As the list is long, the locale you are searching might take time

The products you have configured are listed in the products view and all your edits in the Manager product configuration view get reflected here as well. Do note that as you add and edit products, parts and materials the listing is updated here.

The planner menus, buttons and features that you are presenting to the user can be localized under the Planner menu. As new features get deployed, additional localizations may appear here.

From the export button you can export the listing in CSV format. At the moment, only way to import is to provide the CSV file to VividWorks support and our experts to perform the import for you.