Exploring Parents for Items

You can explore the parents of a classified item (mainly for Product Reference and Representation) in a catalog.

Required access roles:

Baseline: Leader

  1. Right-click the reference and select Explore Parents.
    The Explore Parents immersive dialog box appears. The selected reference represents the root of a tree under which is its parent object. The thumbnail represents a 3D image of the parent object.
    Note: The tree is displayed bottom to top.
  2. Click Float to undock the dialog box.
  3. If the parent object can be expanded, double-click it.
    The parent object's parent object is displayed in the tree. (You can continue expanding the tree to display in turn the parent object of each respective object for as many levels as you wish.)
  4. Select any object in the displayed tree.
    The selected object's parent object is displayed in the thumbnail.
  5. Right-click any object in the tree and select Explore.
    The object is opened in a new Navigation tab.
  6. Select any object in the tree, right-click the associated parent thumbnail and select Explore.
    The parent object is opened in a new Navigation tab.
  7. Click to toggle to Instance/Reference mode.
    The different instances are now displayed for the references previously displayed.
  8. Click to display a list of all roots. All roots are indicated.
  9. To close the dialog box, click Close .

You can explore parents for classified catalog objects. For more information, see 3DLive | 3DLive Fundamentals | Navigating on Data | Exploring Parents