Registering Your Own Administrative Objects

You can register your own administrative objects (those that are not part of Collaboration and Approvals) using the same properties as Collaboration and Approvals objects. You must also register the symbolic name for any custom administrative objects that you refer to in a program or the program will not work.

The Admin Type Property Registration dialog box lets you add, delete, and modify properties for administrative objects, including the symbolic name property and the five properties that facilitate upgrades for each object. For more information, see Collaboration and Approvals Administration Guide : How the System Identifies Administrative Objects: Symbolic Name Properties and Properties of Administrative Objects.

Do not change the properties for Collaboration and Approvals objects. The installation program maintains and updates these properties. Changing the administrative properties for Collaboration and Approvals objects can prevent the system from calling the objects within programs and from updating objects correctly when new versions are installed.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin:
  • You must be logged in as a user assigned to the Administration Manager role.
  • Using MQL, make sure the administrative object is added to the database.

Register Administrative Objects

  1. To open the Property Registration dialog box:
    1. From the compass, select Social and Collaborative Apps .
    2. In the list of apps, click Collaboration and Approvals.
    3. In the navigation pane, click Utilities > Property Registration > Admin Type.
  2. From the Admin Type list, choose the needed type of administrative object.

    For example, to add a type called SubType, choose type from the Admin Type list.

    If you register a custom table, you also need to register any custom attributes used in that table.

  3. From the Un-Registered Admins list, choose the needed object.

    Do not register schema that you anticipate to be in an upcoming release without explicit permission from Engineering. They must provide you with the registration information for the app and version properties. If you have not received instructions from Engineering, do not enter "ENOVIAEngineering" for the installer property in any schema that you register.

  4. Enter values for the properties as needed. If you are using Collaboration and Approvals's convention for symbolic names, use the format [administrative type]_[object name with no spaces].

    • When entering the version number, use dashes as separators, not periods.

      Correct: 10-6-0-1

      Incorrect: 10.6.0.1

      The version specified must be a valid SchemaInstaller version. You can find the list of valid schema versions in the AppInfo.rul files in this directory: 

      <ENOVIA_INSTALL>/studio/Apps/SchemaInstaller/<version>/SchemaInstaller

    • When entering symbolic names for custom administrative objects, do not use the exact same naming convention as Collaboration and Approvals uses unless you are working closely with Engineering BOM Management. You can use a slight variation of the naming convention, such as adding an abbreviation for your company's name. For example, instead of type_Part, a company with the abbreviation ACM could add type_ACMPart.

  5. Click Create Registration.

    The properties are saved and the object is moved to the Registered Admins list.

  6. Before using the administrative object, especially a store, within an app, restart the app server.

Remove a Registration

  1. To open the Property Registration dialog box:
    1. From the compass, select Social and Collaborative Apps .
    2. In the list of apps, click Collaboration and Approvals.
    3. In the navigation pane, click Utilities > Property Registration > Admin Type.
  2. From the Admin Type list, choose the needed type of administrative object.
  3. From the Registered Admins list, choose the needed object.
  4. Click Delete Registration.

    The object is moved to the Un-Registered Admins list and all properties for the object are deleted.

Update Administrative Object Properties

  1. To open the Property Registration dialog box:
    1. From the compass, select Social and Collaborative Apps .
    2. In the list of apps, click Collaboration and Approvals.
    3. In the navigation pane, click Utilities > Property Registration > Admin Type.

    Do not update properties for objects that are part of Collaboration and Approvals(properties attached to the registration program eServiceSchemaVariableMapping.tcl).

  2. From the Admin Type list, choose the needed type of administrative object.
  3. From the Registered Admins list, choose the needed object.
  4. Click Retrieve Registration.
  5. Edit values for the properties as needed.
  6. Click Update Registration.
  7. Before using the administrative object within an app, restart the app server.