Simulation Process Administration 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 access role, you can create and manage the following types of content with Simulation Process Administration:

Content Type Category
Simulation Attribute Group Definition
Simulation Attribute Resource*
Simulation Connector Definition
Note: Simulation Attribute is not a business type. However, the management of attributes when used with attribute groups is considered Resource data for access purposes.

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

Access Roles

Restricted roles allow partners to access content owned by their company within a specific collaborative space. The table below describes the level of access for restricted roles for design tasks. For more information, see Restricted Responsibilities.

Access Role Description
Reader (Restricted) Has read access to any content owned by their organization.
Contributor (Restricted) For content owned by their organization, can perform the same actions as a Contributor.
Author (Restricted) For content owned by their organization, can perform the same actions as an Author.
Leader (Restricted) For content owned by their organization, can perform the same actions as a Leader.

The Owner (Restricted) access role can perform the same actions as an Owner for content owned by their organization.

On premises only: 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 for design tasks.

Baseline Access Role Description
Reader

Can access simulation content only in the Frozen, Released, or Obsolete state.
Contributor

Uses predefined objects, such as experiences, attribute groups, and connectors, to create and run simulation processes and simulation activities.

Can also do the following:

  • Modify connector options.
  • Create download, upload, and delete rules.
  • Add an attribute group to simulation processes and simulation activities.
  • Define the parameters and attributes of a simulation process.
  • Copy references or documents with content.
  • Create documents or links to documents.
  • Put common content into documents.
  • Specify the download, upload, and delete rules for documents.
  • Run simulation processes and activities.
  • Create revisions.
  • Perform PLM collaborative tasks, such as initiating a review.
Author Creates and configures simulation processes and simulation activities that can be used as experiences by the simulation analyst. Also creates the following:
  • Connectors that a simulation activity uses to run simulation applications and define the arguments and options that will be available to the simulation analyst.
  • Simulation experiences

Can do the following:

  • Create an attribute group and delete an attribute group that the Owner owns.
  • Add and remove attributes from the attribute group.
  • Modify the properties of an attribute in the attribute group.

A person with the role of Author cannot create attributes.
Leader

Reviews simulation objects in the review lifecycle state and determines if they can be promoted to the next lifecycle state.

Can do the following:

  • Create, modify, and delete an attribute group.
  • Create, modify, and delete an attribute.
Owner Provides other users access to simulation objects to which the Owner already has access.

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

The lifecycle states of a connector are Private, Development, Complete, Released, and Obsolete. The following rules apply to these lifecycle states:

  • The Simulation Methods Developer must grant read access to make a simulation connector available to a Simulation Analyst.
  • The Simulation Methods Developer can edit a simulation connector only in the Development state.
  • The Simulation Methods Developer cannot demote the state from Complete or Released to Development if the simulation connector is used in a simulation process or simulation activity.
  • The Simulation Methods Developer should not promote the simulation connector to the Complete state until it is complete and has been tested. The connector cannot be modified in the Complete state, and it cannot be demoted after it has been assigned to a simulation activity.
  • To modify a simulation connector that has been promoted to the Released state and assigned to a simulation activity, you must create a revision of the simulation connector, modify the revision, and assign the revision to the simulation activity.

For more information, see 3DEXPERIENCE Platform: Content Lifecycle.