Document Management System

Use

You can use SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author to link to SAP Easy Document Management. This enables you to download, view, and update documents, as well as search for documents and files. Easy DMS integration allows you to quickly and easily browse for documents and files on multiple servers. Once these are found, you can easily download and view the files and embed them into SAP Visual Enterprise Author.

Easy DMS standardizes how users view and communicate with servers, serving as:

  • A user interface for connecting to your selected server

  • A basic browser for looking at documents in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author

  • A search interface to allow more unstructured searching of the contents of the servers

  • A mechanism to allow users with restricted access to only get the functionality they are allowed.

Basic Workflow

The basic workflow allows you to log in to one or several servers. This login is controlled by DMS, and is for a single session. As long as DMS is open, the session remains logged in. This allows you to perform multiple actions without logging on again for each task.

Features

DMS uses a local Favorites folder. You can check out files from DMS into the local Favorites folder, and SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author loads them from there. Checking in to DMS also occurs from the Favorites folder.

The main features are as follows:

  • Adding and removing servers

  • Searching for documents

  • Accessing documents directly that meet the search criteria

  • Uploading associated files

  • Viewing selected file information

  • Downloading multiple assets and derivatives simultaneously

  • Viewing previously downloaded files

  • Caching downloaded files for future use

  • Loading shattered files. VDS shattered means that each part and assembly is stored as a separate file that is combined dynamically at viewing time. Assembly and sub-assemblies reference other files that contain the geometry rather than storing an own copy. For minor changes, it is possible to visualize the change without the need to reprocess an entire assembly. This works by performing a BOM explosion to select the files that make up the entire scene and constructing the viewable at runtime.