About File Actions

Process Composer allows you to perform a number of actions to move your folders, documents, files, and images between the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and your working directory.

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About the Content Page
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Documents

You can perform an action by selecting the object in the Content page and choosing from the More Actions menu in the Content page toolbar.

To export a document from the Process Composer database to your working directory, you can either check out the document or download it.

Check Out

When you check out a document, you lock the document, and it cannot be edited by other people until you check it back into the database or cancel the check out. If you check out a document, it indicates that you intend to modify a file in the document. If the document is a versioned document, Process Composer increments the version number when you check it back into the database. If the document is a nonversioned document, Process Composer overwrites the original file when you check it back into the database.

Download

When you download a document, you are creating a local copy of the document. Other people can continue to check out or download the document from the database. If you download a document, it indicates that you intend to only review or read a file in the document but do not plan to check in any changes.

To import a document from your working directory back into the database, you can either update the document or check it in. When you import a document, Process Composer behaves as follows:

  • If the document contains a versioned file, Process Composer updates the version number of the file; previous versions are retained.
  • If the document contains a nonversioned file, Process Composer replaces or overwrites the file within the document.
Update Files

You use update to update files in documents that you previously checked out.

Upload/Check in

You use upload/check in to update files in documents. An upload refers to the first time the document is checked in. If the document was previously checked out, this file action is identical to Update.

In addition, Process Composer allows you to do the following:

Viewer

You can view a document using the application that your browser associates with the type of file in the document.

Upload Images

You can upload images that provide a visual representation of the contents of a document. See About Images for more information.

In addition, Process Composer provides tools that allow you to work with large data files. See About Working with Large Files for more information.