5 Modified and Unavailable AutoVue for Agile Features

As part of the integration, some features in the Viewer are modified or made unavailable, primarily to comply with Agile access control requirements.

5.1 User Interface Modifications

The following features described in the viewer Online Help have been modified or have been suppressed and are not available.

Window menu and its options for viewing multiple files (New, Cascade, Tile Horizontally, and Tile Vertically) are not available.
Tooltips Quick Menu is not available.
The ability to click and drag toolbars to move them is not available.
Mnemonic letter shortcuts (ALT+letter) are not available and are not displayed as underlined letters in menus.
The Customize > Options menu selection does not include toolbar and tooltip settings.

5.2 File Storage and Management Modifications

Since the Agile system manages and controls access to attached files and markups (redline files), the following features described in the viewer Online Help may have been modified or are not available to you.

Many of these modifications relate to how files are opened, saved, and where they are stored. Instead of using viewer features (for example, File > Open, as described in the viewer Online Help) to view files, the files are selected via the Agile object Attachments tab and the file folder Files tab, and retrieved from the file vault, part of Agile File Manager (AFM). The files are then displayed in the viewer window. When you create and save markup files, they are also saved in the file vault. (See "Opening Agile Attachment Files from the Viewer Window" and "Guidelines for Marking Up or Redlining Attachments.")

If you need more information about a feature, see the AutoVue for Agile Online Help. To view Online Help, choose Help > Content in the menu bar.

5.3 Opening Files Features

These features described in the viewer Online Help are not available:

Viewer Startup view (empty viewer window).
Drag and drop files from Windows Explorer onto the viewer window to open them.
The following viewer File menu selections are not available in the Agile Advanced Viewer: Open, Browse, Next File, Previous File, Load File, and Close.

For information about available File menu open features, see "Opening Agile Attachment Files from the Viewer Window."

Archive file directory displayed in viewer window.
Import and Export Markup files feature is not available. Import and Export 3D Models is not available.

Access to all files, including markup files, is managed by the Agile system. For more information about markup files in Agile, see "Marking Up - How It Works" and "Guidelines for Marking Up or Redlining Attachments."

5.4 Working with Hyperlinks

Refer to the AutoVue for Agile Online Help for details about working with and creating hyperlinks. To view the Online Help, choose Help > Contents in the AutoVue for Agile menu bar.

Although you can create hyperlink markup entities, you cannot create hyperlinks to other files in the Agile file vault.

The purpose of this viewer feature is to gather or link related information together. This functionality is provided by Agile features such as Attachments tabs (which may have multiple attached file folder objects) and Relationships tabs. For more information about file folder objects and attachments see the Getting Started with Agile PLM Guide.