Tree window

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Tree window

The Tree window

The tree window displays the hierarchical structure of the database given a root document.

There are two possible views available as a tree structure: the child tree and the parent tree.

The available information

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In the ID column you can read:

the state of the document from the color

the type of document from the icon

the ID of the document

The 'Buy' column display information related to the BOM that indicates if the component is bought, purchased or must not appear in the BOM.

The 'Revision' column displays the revision number, where applicable.

Optionally you can display in the 'D' column an x that indicates that a drawing exists for the given item.

The 'COMPANY_ID' column displays the ownership of the component in case MechworksPDM is shared as a remote database.

Display of advanced features

Optionally, you can enable advanced feature like physical quantities for the BOM items and dirty flags for the revisions. In this case, the display changes as follows:

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Drag&Drop support in Trees

As for the Project Tree in DocumentPage (and for all the trees structures) you can perform drag&drop actions on projects, also dragging a project on another one to create/remove indentation levels.

Keeping a printed copy as a reference

To print the tree structure, create an html output of it clicking the button images_Buttons_html and then print the result from your browser. All the nodes can be collapsed or expanded so that only the relevant information is displayed both on the screen and in the printed version.