1.4.3.6.3. Overview of the index management user interface

The following figure shows the user interface of PARTadmin.

PARTadmin -> Category: Index management [Index administration]

The PARTadmin user interface with index management [Index administration] selection is divided into the following areas:

Menu and toolbar

Category selection [Category]

All administrative operations are carried out within PARTadmin.

Use Category to select the specific use case (e.g. index management [Index administration], catalog updating [Catalog update], ERP environment, etc.)

This section deals with index management [Index administration].

	Note
	The areas and are displayed unchanged for all PARTadmin functions.

Content page of the selected category Index management [Index administration]

Index tree
- Catalogs
  All installed catalogs are displayed here.
- My Parts
  The following own parts are managed/displayed here:
  - Own parts stored directly from the CAD system (3Dfindit menu in CAD -> Own parts library - see Section 2.6.2, “ Insert from the standard and purchased parts library via "PARTdataManager"” in ENTERPRISE 3Dfindit (Professional) - User library Section 2.6.2, “ Insert from the standard and purchased parts library via "PARTdataManager"” in ENTERPRISE 3Dfindit (Professional) - User
  - Parts that were added via PLMsynchro (see Section 1.2, “ PLM Synchro - Create your own parts catalogs” in PARTwarehouse )
- Classifications
  All installed classifications are managed here.
- User data
  Favorites and the history [History] are managed in the index tree under user data [User data].
  - Favorites
    All favorites set in the PARTdataManager are displayed here.
    You can also hide certain displays of different directories in the PARTdataManager.
  - History
    The complete history of the parts used in the PARTdataManager is displayed here.
    You can also hide certain displays of different directories in the PARTdataManager.
Preview images
Preview images of directories and projects are displayed on the right.

Progress display of the index update [Index update]

Note

You can activate the Index update dialog area in the context menu of the title bar, the menu or the toolbar.

Activate "Index update [Index update] " dialog area

Index update " dialog area

Messages

Errors are displayed in the Messages window.

Status bar - Icons

An icon in the status bar indicates whether the index is index:
If a green lock symbol is displayed, PARTadmin has access to the index.
If a red lock icon then the index is locked.
When moving the mouse over the icon a tooltip is displayed where you can see which computer and which application is responsible.
When generations are processed the respective icon is displayed as well.
In addition, all current generations are displayed in the Index update dialog area.

Click on Clear list [Clean list] to hide the icon again.
If the Index update dialog area is hidden, it is shown again by clicking on to show it again.

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