Contents

Contents

Contents. 3

Chapter 1 – Introduction. 11

Overview of Lascom AEC. 12

Launching Lascom AEC. 13

How to connect to your application?. 13

How to disconnect to your application?. 14

Unicode  14

Lascom AEC Screen. 15

Business Tab (welcome page) 15

Profiles Example. 16

SideBar   16

Description of the icons. 17

Buttons   18

Chapter 2 – The Vault 19

Classification. 20

EDM / PLM Modules. 21

Documents. 21

BIM      21

Partners  23

Vault Settings. 23

Document (Technical Object) 24

Document Form.. 24

Content of the document form.. 25

Document traceability. 25

Document Codification. 25

Vault Settings. 26

Welcome page. 26

Define a favorite welcome page. 27

My Favorites. 27

Add a custom space to the favorites. 28

Add a filter to the Favorites. 28

Add a SmartView to the Favorites. 28

Remove an item from « My Favorites ». 29

Add an item to « My Favorites». 29

Manage My Favorites. 30

Custom spaces. 31

Display of custom spaces. 31

To add objects to a custom space. 31

Edit custom Spaces. 32

Import / Export to data. 32

Organization by project (ProjectRoom) 34

Chapter 3 – Vault Objects. 35

Searching data. 36

How do you search for an object in the repository?. 36

Filters   41

Variables filters. 46

Date filters with delays. 46

Filters on user name. 47

Advances search. 47

Smart View.. 47

Multi-class Search. 52

Easy Search. 55

Display of the values. 55

To view an document in the vault 55

Interpretation of symbols. 56

To view properties for a document 56

Back to « …». 57

Navigate in a search result 57

To view the History of a document 58

Files management 59

To view « Configurations ». 60

To view «Where Used». 61

Display of Associated Packages. 61

Printout of documents and standard reports. 62

Standard report formats. 62

Print list 63

Central printing. 65

Network Printing. 67

Subscriptions on filters. 67

Creating a subscription on a filter 67

Viewing /editing a filter subscription. 69

Description of the Notification. 69

Distribution. 70

Distributing a document 71

Viewing distributed documents. 73

Distribution notification. 73

Validations. 73

Simple Validation. 74

Auto Validation. 76

Notification of validation. 77

Transmittals. 77

Comments. 77

Add a comment 77

Opinion request 79

Create an opinion request 79

TaskManager 80

Delegation. 81

Description. 81

To delegate a task. 82

To manage a delegation. 84

Search delegation. 86

Import delegation. 87

Navigate in the delegate. 87

Reassignment 87

Description. 87

How to reassign a task?. 88

Result of a reassignment 90

Email notifications. 90

Chapter 4 – Creating and Modifying Documents. 91

Data Management 92

To create a document 92

To create multiple documents of the same type. 94

To create a copy of a document 95

To copy to a different type of document 95

To created document with related files. 96

Drag and drop the files. 98

Multiple download. 98

Display related files. 99

Managing related files. 100

Update state to distributed. 100

To modify document properties. 101

To edit multiple documents. 101

Reserving a document 102

Cancelling a reservation. 102

Chapter 5 – Packages. 103

Packages generalities. 104

Display of mailbox / workflows templates. 104

Packages. 105

Create packages. 105

Mailbox layout 106

Preview a Package Template. 106

Send an item in a workflow from the Vault 106

All  106

New tasks. 107

Sent elements. 108

Owned elements. 108

Aborting an owned package. 109

To delete an owned package. 110

To display the XML file of an owned package. 110

Drafts  111

Deleting a Draft 112

Archived Packages. 112

Filtering workflow packages. 113

Searching for a workflow package. 113

Create a filter 113

Managing filters. 114

Filtering on custom properties. 115

Follow up the process of the packages. 116

Inspection. 117

Task completion. 117

View Process. 119

Package attachments. 120

Chapter 6 – Working with attachments. 122

Attachments. 123

Viewing Attachments. 123

Viewing File Contents. 124

Downloading Files. 125

Adding Attachments. 126

Adding New Folders. 126

Adding Files to a Folder 127

Adding a URL. 127

Adding Vault Links. 128

Editing Attachments. 129

Deleting Attachments. 129

Cancelling Checkout 131

Checking In Files. 132

Replacing Files with New Versions. 132

Synchronizing Attachment Data with the Vault 133

Chapter 7 – Configurations. 134

Configuration. 135

Creating Configurations. 135

To display a Configuration. 135

Edit the link properties of a configuration. 137

Configuration Links. 138

To add a link to a configuration. 139

Insert a link in an existing configuration. 139

To replace a link in a configuration. 140

To move a link to a configuration. 140

To Delete a Link. 140

Deleting a Configuration. 140

Lock a configuration. 141

Folder publication (Configuration) 142

Created configuration publication. 142

ZIP file display. 143

Chapter 8 – MailBox. 144

Description Mailbox. 145

Display of mailbox. 145

Processes. 146

All  146

New     146

Sent Elements. 146

Owned packages. 146

Drafts   146

Archived packages. 146

Distributions. 146

Distributions List 147

Distributions: New.. 148

Distributions: Acknowledged. 148

Distributions: Archived. 148

Sent Elements. 149

Validations. 149

Current  149

New     150

Validated. 151

Refused  151

Sent elements. 151

Archived  151

Meaning of the symbols. 151

Opinions requests. 152

Current  152

New     153

Read    153

Sent elements. 154

Archived  154

Task Manager 154

Chapter 9 – Reports. 155

Description. 156

Reports types. 156

« Connection » Report 156

“Reassignment Report” 157

“Workflow Audit Trail” Report 158

Reports on system utilization. 158

Chapter 10 – User settings. 162

Settings. 163

Summary. 163

User Profile. 164

Login    165

Home    165

Projects  170

MailBox  170

Reports  171

Administration. 172

Attachments. 173

Layouts   173

Chapter 11 – Administration. 177

Administration Tab. 178

Chapter 12 – Glossary. 179

Glossary. 180

Abreviations. 180

LASCOM Definitions. 180