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You can display the original application files while you are processing a document. The procedures for displaying original application files are the same regardless of where they are stored. Additional settings, however, must be made in Customizing to display the files from a secure storage area.

Prerequisites

Customizing Settings for Document Management

Under General Data you must make the following settings:

Data that is necessary

Activity in Customizing

You set the Workstation application can be started from the document info record for display.

Set the start authorization for the workstation application under   General data   Define workstation application.  

You set which workstation application, dependent on the frontend computer is to be started for displaying and from which directory the program is called.

Set the path for the program call for the application type 1 (display) under   General data   Define workstation application   Define workstation application in network.  

The system creates a temporary copy for the following processing situations:

  • DM on the SAP GUI: To display an original application file that is located in Secure Storage Areas

  • DM on the PLM Web UI: To display an original application file that is located on the content server

To display these original application file, set the file format that you want the system to create under   General Data   Define workstation application  .

You can also use the integrated viewer to display the original application files.

For more information, see the following:

You must first enter the required data under   General Settings   Define workstation application   in order to use the integrated viewer.

  • Maintain all data on the detail screen that are supported for processing original application files with the workstation application such as for the application Direct Model for processing JT files.

  • Set which viewer you want to use to display the original application files for the workstation application (for example, Direct Model). Work step: Maintain workstation application in network.

Digital mockup viewing allows 3D models to be displayed in the development phase.

For more information, see the following:

You must make the settings in Customizing for Document Management before you can display a 3D model of an assembly and its components in the Engineering Workbench.

For more information, see the following:
Processing a Document Info Record

To display original application files, you must first process the document info record that belongs to the original application file.

You have the necessary authorizations.

Procedure

  1. Process the document info record in create, change, or display mode.

  2. Navigate to the Originals tab page on the SAP GUI, or to the Originals Processing tab page on the PLM Web UI.

  3. You have the following options for displaying original application files:

    • Double-click the original application file. This starts the application for displaying the original application file.

    • Select the entry and choose on the SAP GUI or the Display pushbutton on the PLM Web UI.

Result

The system opens the original in a second window using the relevant workstation application. The check-in icon does not change because the original is only displayed.

You can use all active functions of the application. You can also still process the document info record or close it while processing the original application file in the application.