Viewing documents associated with an ICO

The instance viewer, located at the bottom right of the Classification Properties view, allows you to see documents attached to the classified workspace object of the selected ICO, such as BOM assemblies, monolithic JT files, Word documents, or GIF images. These documents are attached to the workspace object as a named reference in a dataset.

The documents available for viewing display as tabs at the side of the viewer. Only those documents that the viewer is able to display appear as tabs.

The following table lists some of the tabs the viewer displays.

Tab	Description
	Opens a GIF image.
	Opens an NX part file.
	Opens a JT file.
	Opens a Microsoft Word document.
	Opens an assembly.

Move the cursor over the tab; the tool tip tells you what document is available.

Note

The instance viewer is functional only if you have installed Teamcenter Visualization for Rich Client.

You can alter the behavior of the instance viewer using the following preferences:

• ICS_presented_instance_documents contains a list of those named references you want to have available for the viewer to display. The system searches through all datasets of the workspace object for these named references and presents a tab for each one.

• ICS_default_instance_document controls which of the available documents is displayed by default when you view an ICO. Using this preference, you can, for example, specify that assembly JT files are not shown by default but must be expressly selected to appear. This can save time when paging through ICOs of large assemblies. If none of the document types listed in this preference are associated with the ICO, the viewer displays no attachment. It can still, however, contain tabs for other available documents.

• ICS_max_number_of_components controls the number of assembly components to be shown without warning.

• g4mInstanceViewer.VIEWERCONFIGTOLOAD specifies which type of viewer is used to display different types of attachments. By default, this preference points to the g4mViewerConfig.VIEWERCONFIG preference that contains a list of viewers and attachment types. To view NX parts in the instance viewer, add the following values to the g4mViewerConfig.VIEWERCONFIG preference:

UGMASTER.DirectModelViewer=UGPART

UGPART.DirectModelViewer=UGPART

Tip To ensure that the instance viewer displays the same attachments as the Teamcenter viewer, you can set the value of the g4mInstanceViewer.VIEWERCONFIGTOLOAD preference to defaultViewerConfig.VIEWERCONFIG. If, however, you have added any special attachment types to the instance viewer g4mViewerConfig.VIEWERCONFIG preference, you must also add these types to the defaultViewerConfig.VIEWERCONFIG preference.

Note

The symbols used for these tabs are found in com\teamcenter\rac\classification\common\images. You can customize the symbols in the com\teamcenter\rac\classification\common\common.properties file.