2.2   Using Work Area

The Work Area is the right pane of the 4G:PLM application which has the recent or active working items, documents, objects etc. The Work Area is the place where the users will be working.  Think of this as your personal work area.  You can drag and drop items into this space (from the left panel of recently accessed objects).  When items are in your work area, they become more accessible without having to search for them.  You can clear this work area at any time using the icon or menu (see below).

clear_Workarea.png           clear-wrk.png

Figure 2.3: Work Area

Advance Options

You can drag & drop objects from the left pane to the right pane to work with. On the left pane, while working with the recent objects, you can access advanced options by right clicking an object. For example, while working in the “Recent Item” on the left pane, right clicking on an Item object will give the options to

               Add to Work Area

               Remove from Recent

               Details

               Where Used

               BOM

               AML

               Changes

               Attachments

               Delete Parts

 

There are also advanced menu options while you are working on the right pane. Right clicking an Item object will give you the following options

               Remove from Work Area

               Details

               Where Used

               BOM

               AML

               Changes

               Attachments

While working in 4G:PLM, double clicking any object, both on the left pane and the right, will open the object in a new window.