Product Structure Explore Home Page

This topic explains the sections, views, fields, and actions in the home page of Product Structure Explore. From the Product Structure Explore home page, you can create and manage products, parts, and drawings.

This page discusses:

Access Your Work

From the left pane, you can open the following objects.

Action Description
Open Content Searches for existing objects and lets you select one or several from the Results panel.
Open Products Searches for existing products and lets you select one or several from the Results panel.
Open Filter Searches for existing filters and lets you select one or several from the Results panel.

Recents

When you first open Product Structure Explore, the home page is empty. You can load content from the Search for Content command or you can drag an object and drop it in the panel.

Note: The appearance of the selected area changes when you hover over it with the dragged object. If the area does not change, then the object is not added.

Action Description
Add Objects in Context Loads the object in context.
Add Objects Loads the object.
Add and Filter Content Loads and filters the object.

Actions

The following actions are available in the page toolbar.

Action Description
Toggle repository content chooser view

Collapses or expands the content repository area.
Note: The icon changes direction between collapse and expand.
Open Opens the selected recent root path or filter inside the view.
Note: The command is available if at least one of the selected objects is not loaded. Otherwise, the command is disabled.
Open with filter Opens the selected product and opens the Filter command.
Note: The command is available if only one product that is not open yet is selected. The behavior is the same as when you drop an object on the Filter area of the home page.
Manage Selection

Manages the selection of the recent objects.
Remove Removes the selected objects from the recent objects list.
Note: Removing the object from the Recent Objects list also removes it from the view if it was previously loaded.
View





Changes the view of the Recent Objects list.
Close Closes the home page and shows the app content.
Note: The command is disabled when there is no content in the Recent Objects list.
Toggle repository content chooser view

Collapses or expands the content repository area.
Note: The icon changes direction between collapse and expand.