Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create the required data that is used in the exercises below.
Windows:
Document Titles
General exercise for Create Document Title and Revision
You will also need to have some files that can be used to check in. The optimal situation is if you have a 3D-CAD application with real files, but for this exercise, a couple of ordinary textfiles (file extension .txt) will do.
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to learn how to check in and modify structure documents.
Windows:
Document Revision
In this exercise, you will learn how to check in files to a structure document, and create a complete document structure with subdocuments and connected document files.
Note: The Check In Document Structure opens. This dialog box differs from the one used for normal documents.
Note: You have now connected a file to the main document. Next you will add subdocuments by selecting additional files.
Note: You have now connected a couple of files under the main document.
Each file will generate a new document after you execute the check-in. Each
document will become a subdocument to the main document (the one you checked
in). By default, the subdocuments will get the same document class
as the parent document. This class will control the default values, for example,
the document revisions.
If you want, you can select another
class for the subdocuments, but for now, use the same. You can also add subdocuments to
any of the subdocuments
you just added; creating an extra level to the document structure.
In this exercise, you will learn how to modify a structure document, and check out all the files in the document structure.
Note: The Edit Document Structure dialog box will open. This dialog box is different from the one used for normal documents. There are numerous options here; leave the default values are they are. If you checked in two subdocuments in the previous exercise, you will see three documents in this dialog box; the main document (parent) and the two subdocuments and the files connected to each document.
Note: Only the main document file will be opened. Document Management will not open the subdocument files; they will be opened by the program opening the main document's file. The subdocument files that have been checked out will be visible in the check-out folder. If you use a 3D-CAD application, the subdocument's files will open up in the application if the main document references them. This will not happen if you are testing with simple text files.