Using the collaboration pane

You can optionally use the collaboration pane to view the open component in a navigation tree. Any attachments are shown in the collaboration pane, and you can open them and view their properties.

Note

You can also browse and edit a collaboration context or structure context with My Teamcenter or Manufacturing Process Planner. Any changes you make in those applications are visible in this application; similarly, any changes you make here are visible in those applications.

You can hide or show the collaboration pane as necessary by clicking the Show/Hide Collaboration Panel button. When you hide the collaboration pane, it remembers the context expansion and selection to redisplay when you show the collaboration pane again.

The data displayed in the collaboration pane and the structure pane may be independent of each other. However, if you open a structure component in the collaboration pane, the corresponding data always appears in the structure pane.

In the collaboration pane, you can:

• Browse and expand the navigation tree.

• Change the current root objects of a structure context. If the objects are not part of the collaboration context, they are shown as extra lines in the collaboration pane.

• Cut, copy, paste, and delete components in a structure context.

• Remove structures from the collaboration context.

• View multiple root objects such as items, item revisions, BOM lines. These do not have to be part of the collaboration context.

• View attachments that are not visible in the BOM. You can view configured and unconfigured attachments.

• View the variant rules associated with the structures in the collaboration context.

• View and apply the revision rules associated with the structures in the collaboration context.

• Submit an item revision to a predefined workflow. Select the item revision and choose the Workflow Process menu command. The status of the item changes to reflect success or failure.