Defining Spare Parts Views
Once the catalog has been set-up and once your products have been defined and linked to their spare parts, you can work on the definition of the spare parts views.
A spare parts view is attached to a product and is linked to a RMO Image (corresponding to the view). A spare parts view has a list of links to the spare parts it contains.
Each view shows hotspots which link specific areas in the image to the corresponding spare parts products within the product structure - as illustrated in the figure below.
A spare parts view is a product view. One product can have many views defined as parameters of the workspace (user types).
1 Hotspot Id corresponds to several clickable areas
1 Hotspot Id corresponds to a unique spare part product breadcrumb (and vice versa).
Viewing spare parts view
In order to view a spare parts view, proceed as follows:
How to:
[Via the ‘Explore Structure’ explorer]
- Select the catalog or a collection in order to view the products of that explorer entry in the Upper pane of the explorer
- Select then the product you want to open in the Lower pane of the explorer
- Or
[Via the “Filter objects” explorer]
- By using the search fields, retreive the product you want to open
- Click on its name
[Using the “Spare Parts” step]
- Select the specific user type you would like to open, by clicking on the corresponding view. The default entry is indicated by the “default” view.
- The image linked to the product and possibily its hotspots are displayed in the spare parts view area. The product spare parts are displayed in the grid
- The RMO image linked to the product has its name displayed in the top left corner of the image.
Creating spare parts view
In order to create a spare parts view to products, proceed as follows:
How to:
[Via the ‘Explore Structure’ explorer]
- Select the catalog or a collection in order to view the products of that explorer entry in the Upper pane of the explorer
- Select then the product you want to open in the Lower pane of the explorer
Or
[Via the “Filter objects” explorer]
- By using the search fields retreive the product you want to open
- Click on its name
[Using the “Spare Parts” step]
- Select the specific user type you would like to work on, by clicking on the corresponding view.
[Using the “Explore rich media” explorer]
- Expand the “Images” folder.
- Click on the “Spareparts” subfolder to view its content.
- Once you have found the image of interest, drag & drop it to the “Spare Parts View” area
[In the menu toolbar]
- Save
The products linked to the parent product, with a Spare Parts link, are added into the grid.
Deleting spare parts view
In order to remove a spare parts view, proceed as follows:
- [Via the ‘Explore Structure’ explorer]
- Select the product you what to open
- [Using the “Spare Parts” step]
- Select the specific user type for which you want to remove the view
- [In the menu toolbar]
- Execute the “Remove SPV” function.
- [Via the menu toolbar]
- Save.
The image is removed from the spare parts view area and all the hotspots are deleted.
Adding hotspots
When the image is dropped in the Spare Parts view area, the hotspots can be detected or created. In order to detect automatically the hotspots, proceed as follows:
How to:
[In the menu toolbar]
- Execute the “Detect hotspots” function
[Via the menu toolbar]
- Save
In order to add manually hotspots, proceed as follows:
How to:
[In the menu toolbar]
- Execute the “Add hotspot” function
[In the Spare Parts View area]
- Draw the hotspot area
- Enter the hotspt ID in the popup
- Validate with the OK button
All the hotspots detected or created are added into the spare parts items grid, one line per hotspot. Their ID and position are inserted.
If many hotspots are defined with the same ID, an expand sign is displayed on the first spare parts line and all the hotspot positions are shown on the lines below.
Deleting hotspots
In order to delete a hotspot, proceed as follows:
How to:
[In the Spare Parts View area]
- Click on the hotspot to delete Or
[In the menu toolbar]
- Select the hotspot ID in the toolbar list (all the hotspots with this ID are selected)
[In the menu toolbar]
- Execute the “Delete hotspot” function
[In the menu toolbar]
- Save
Changing hotspot ID
In order to change the ID of a hotspot, proceed as follows:
How to:
[In the Spare Parts View area]
- Click on the hotspot
Or
[In the menu toolbar]
- Select one hotspot ID in the toolbar list (all the hotspots with this ID are selected)
[In the menu toolbar]
- Execute the “Change ID” function
- Enter the new hotspt ID
- Validate with the OK button
[In the menu toolbar]
- Save
Linking hotspots
In order to link hotspots from the spare parts view area to spare parts items in the grid, proceed as follows:
How to:
[In the Spare Parts products grid]
- Fill the hotspot ID in the spare parts line
Or
[In the Spare Parts View area]
- Click on the hotspot
[In the Spare Parts products grid]
- Click on the icon of the spare part item (or vice versa)
- On mouseOver on a hotspot, its ID and the spare part description are shownTip: Note that if you need to associate a hostpot id to a sub-assembly of the product structure, you have to browse element and sub-element in the product grid.
Changing the spare parts view image
If a new image is added to the spare parts view that have already an image:
- The previous hotspots are kept
- After a “Detect hotspots” action, if an ID already linked to a spare parts item is found again it must be linked to the new position
- The hotspots found with new ID are shown and have to be linked or deleted manually
Copying hotspot ID between views
In order to copy hotspots ID from a spare parts view to another, proceed as follows:
How to:
[Using the “Spare Parts” step]
- Select the source spare part view
[In the step toolbar]
Execute the “Copy hotspots” function
- Select the destination spare parts view
- Validate with the OK button
- [In the menu toolbar]
- Save
Spare part views cleaning
Some modeling tools and API are available to ensure the spare parts views consistency.
CHECKING SPARE PART VIEWS
Two buttons (for the current view and for all the views of the current product) are available in the toolbar to launch the following controls:
- Identification of the hotspot which are not associated to any product (Info)
- Listing of the overlaping hotspot areas in the schematics (Info)
- Identification of the invalid associations between hotspot ids and product breadcrumbs (for example, a schematic diagram can embed a hotspot pointing to a breadcrumb that does not exist anymore in the product data structure) (Error).
CLEANING ALL VIEWS
This function removes the association between hotspots and invalid product breadcrumbs.