Use cases

Whenever you update an Excel file to update your data model, do the following to see the changes in your STEP environnement:

  1. save the file
  2. use the c4b interface to select the environment where you would like to deploy the changes
  3. make sure the perimeter that you just updated is selected
  4. click on package (this will create a STEPXML from the Excel files of the perimeter), deploy (this will trigger the STEP environment to upload the generated STEPXML)
  5. check on the STEP environment if your changes have been uploaded
  6. if you wish to upload the documentation, do so by clicking on STEPDOC and consult it online: Online STEPDOCopen in new window

Primary Hierarchy

If you want to add new nodes to the primary hierarchy, you can handle one file that will manage this hierarchy. In that file, you can have one tab that handles all levels of the blue hierarchy or multiple tabs that handle different levels.

In the example below, we want to add 2 new nodes with ID: NPAC-196 and NPAC-197. All changes are highlighted in green.

List Of Values

You can easily manage your LOV definitions and LOV values by having both in one Excel file that you include in one of your perimeter.

In the example below, we want to create 2 new LOV definitions: LOV_WIRE_TYPE and LOV_WIRELESS_TYPE and we want to associate values to those new LOV definitions and to do so we create one tab per LOV definition to isolate the values.
All changes are highlighted in green.

Multi context values can also be managed in Excel.

  • If you want to use the sample file that is shown in the example, you can get it here: lov-sample

Attributes

You can easily manage your Attribute Group definitions and Attribute definitions by having both in one Excel file that you include in one of your perimeter

In the example below, we want to create 3 new attributes under the attribute group ATG_Keyboard: AT_keyboard_wireless, AT_keyboard_wireless_type and AT_wire_type.

All changes are highlighted in green.

  • If you want to use the sample file that is shown in the example, you can get it here: attribute-sample

It is possible to easily maintain and add attribute links in one or several nodes.

In the example below we add 3 new attribute links to existing nodes of the primary hierarchy.

All changes are highlighted in green.

List Of Values filter

C4b allows you to manage List Of Values filter on attributes linked to a node.

In the example below we want to filter the values of 2 attribute links.

All changes are highlighted in green.

  • If you want to use the sample file that is shown in the example, you can get it here: lov-filter-sample
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