Loading Objects in Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard

You can load one or several objects in Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard from another app, the search results, or directly search them from the home page.

If you load one object, the user interface displays the Revision Explorer, and let you select any revision, branch, or duplicate of the object to perform lifecycle or collaboration operations.

If you load several objects, they are displayed in thumbnail view. You can select one or several of these objects to perform lifecycle or collaboration operations. To perform an operation on another revision, branch, or duplicate of the object, you can do either of the following:

  • Load the revision, branch, or duplicate in the app.
  • For some lifecycle operations, open the Revision Explorer of the object with the Revisions command. Right-click the revision, branch, or duplicate, and select the required command from the context menu.

To remove the content loaded in Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard, from the action bar, click Clear All .

Note: If a change is made to an object loaded in Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard such that the object is no longer accessible, this object is unloaded from the widget. This might happen, for example, if the object is transferred to another user, or demoted to the Private maturity state.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: From the Compass, click Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard
See Also
Exploring Revisions, Duplicates and Branches with the Revision Explorer

Search and Load an Object from Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard

You can search and load one object from the home page of Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard.

  1. On the home page, click Search for Content .
    A 3DSearch panel appears.
  2. Search for the object you want to load into Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard.

    For more information, see Using 3DSearch.

  3. Select the object, and click Ok.

The object is loaded in Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard.

Load Objects from Another App or from the Search Results

You can load one or several objects from another app or from the search results into Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard.

  1. Pin Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard to a dashboard.

    For more information, see Managing Widgets.

  2. Drag one or several objects from another app or a search results window.

    Tip: You can also select the objects and, from the Compass, click Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard. For more information, see Switch Between Dashboard Apps.

  3. Drop them into Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard

The objects are loaded in Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard.

Important: You can load additional objects to Collaborative Lifecycle for Dashboard afterward. If you loaded only one object and then load additional objects, the app switches from the single-object user interface to the multi-object user interface.