Product Line Management Access to Content

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a collaborative environment for managing your business processes based on defined responsibilities and content lifecycles that provide secure access to content.

This page discusses:

Content Categories

Depending on your responsibility, you can create and manage the following types of content with Product Line Management.

Content Type Category

Build

Model

Model Version

Product Line

Test Case

Definition
Text Execution Evaluation

Image

Portfolio

Rule

Administrative Resource Management
The content that you can access and the tasks that you can perform depend on your responsibilities. For more information, see 3DEXPERIENCE Platform: Content Categories.

Responsibilities

Product Line Management uses the 3DEXPERIENCE platform 3DSpace baseline responsibilities that your business administrator assigns to you.

The following table describes the permissions for design task responsibilities.

Responsibility Permissions
Reader Can view all model version information such as product lines, models, model versions, features, images, specifications, and so on.
Author Does one or more of the following:
  • Creates models.
  • Creates model versions.
  • Creates product configurations.
Leader Does one or more of the following:
  • Assigns the parts and GBOM parts for a model version and each of its options.
  • Applies part rules to define what constitutes a valid configuration of the model version.
  • Tests the model version's structure and its rules prior to its release.
  • Defines and maintains manufacturing plans and their process steps.
  • Ensures that product line, model, and model version marketing information (Marketing Text, Marketing Name, and images) are properly defined and managed.
  • Creates product lines, models, model versions.
  • Defines the features and options for a model version, including pricing.
  • Specifies some marketing-related rules for the model version.
  • Defines configuration rules for the model version and logical features.
  • Creates product configurations to perform what-if analyses.
  • Generates and validates the BOM for product configurations.
  • Tests the model version's structure and its rules prior to its release.
  • Defines a portfolio of model versions and features with configuration options based on specific customer and market requirements.
  • Builds the software product and its structure, including defining the features for the model version.
  • Manages the definition of the build, the source code, and change management.
  • Defines a portfolio of model versions and features with configuration options based on specific customer and market requirements.
  • Creates product configurations to perform what-if analyses.
  • Generates and validates the BOM for product configurations.
  • Connects logical features to the model version and GBOM parts.
  • Defines rules for model versions and logical features.
  • Sets up test cases to be executed by Quality Engineering.
The following table describes the permissions for administrative task responsibilities.
Responsibility Permissions
Administrator
  • Creates and manages images.
  • Creates and manages portfolios.
  • Creates and manages configuration rules.

If your company chose to use app-specific responsibilities instead of the baseline responsibilities, the following table shows how the responsibilities map to each other.

Baseline Responsibility App-specific Responsibility Permissions
Reader Employee (Global User) Can view all model version information such as product lines, models, model versions, features, images, specifications, and so on.
Author Product Manager Does one or more of the following:
  • Creates models.
  • Creates model versions.
  • Creates product configurations.
Leader Marketing Manager Ensures that product line, model, and model version marketing information (Marketing Text, Marketing Name, and images) are properly defined and managed.
In the previous tables, a responsibility has all the permissions of the responsibilities that appear above it. For example, the Product Manager responsibility includes all access that the Employee responsibility has, plus additional specific permissions. In turn, the Marketing Manager responsibility includes all access that the Product Manager responsibility has, plus additional specific permissions.

For the baseline responsibilities, the Leader responsibility includes all permissions that the Author responsibility has, plus additional specific permissions. The Author responsibility includes all permissions that the Reader responsibility has, plus additional specific permissions.

Your business administrator can configure rules that change the default access behavior.

On premises only: Your business administrator can change the default responsibilities that control your access to commands, content, and collaborative spaces. Companies can also implement additional customized responsibilities.

This guide describes the default behavior when describing access to content or commands.

Your access to content or commands is determined by more than your responsibility. The current collaborative space, your organization, the current lifecycle state of the content, the app you are using, and other customizations all affect whether you can access content or commands. You might have access to some content or commands only under certain conditions.

For more information, see 3DEXPERIENCE Platform: Responsibilities.

Content Lifecycle

For information about the lifecycles for content managed by Product Line Management, see Content Lifecycles.