Settings in Manager

This article describes the settings under the options dialogue in Manager.

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Setting

Usage

Setting

Usage

Part assembly layout

If part assemblies part list should be beside or under exploded view

Restore windows

Remember window position when opening Manager next time.

Open start catalogue

Automatically open start catalogue when starting Manager.

External document viewer

Use pdf viewer installed on laptop / server and open separately when viewing documents.

Initiate new part assembly

Used when custom plugins for part assemblies exist.

Specification count limit

Limit on how many specifications are shown in pane before showing “Overflow”.

Extended repository specification columns

This setting allows user to show specifications as columns in part storage.

Note that there is a performance penalty to showing specifications as columns, and the penalty is higher the more specifications selected.

Use working set

See separate article

Enable template for creating new catalogue

When creating a new catalogue, nodes in root will be added automatically based in template. Also see article

Apply persistent id to create new catalogue

User will get forced to add persistent identity to a catalogue when crateing a new.

Text group extension

Extension will allow to select texts in text storage where the texts are used in presentations. This is useful when eg checking that all parts are translated.

The function has a performance penalty and can thus be turned off.