Core - Administration Guide : Other

27 April 2016

1. Other

1.1. ENOVIA 2015x+ - Load Page Into Content

In ENOVIA 2015x and above, it can be problematic to load a page into the "content" frame and at the same time hide some of the user interface related to page headers etc.

Example shown in screenshot below.

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Figure 1. Load page example

For example if you have loaded an object specific page, you might have the categories to the left and some extended page header area above. This is exemplified in the screenshot below.

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Figure 2. Object page

Simply having the Target Location setting on the command set to content will not result in that the extra area highlighted above is made hidden.

TVC contains a JSP page that will help to work around this problem. Instead of calling your page directly, you can do as shown in the example below:

MQL<1>pri command TVXHomePage;
command TVXHomePage
  description
  label 'TVX Home Page'
  href '${ROOT_DIR}/tvc/core/enovia/LoadContentPage.jsp?page=tvc-action/tvxPersonalTopPanel/foo.jsp?panel=tvc:toppanel:tvx:common:toppanel:personal/PersonalHomePage.xml'
  setting Target Location value content
  user all
  nothidden
  created 4/26/2016 3:18:57 PM
  modified 4/27/2016 10:02:42 AM

E.g. you can load the page ${ROOT_DIR}/tvc/core/enovia/LoadContentPage.jsp that first will reset the view before loading the page as provided via the page parameter.

1.2. User cache (com.technia.tvc.core.db.UserUtils)

The user cache is caching the roles and groups available with the default settings below if a role or group is not found in the cache it will be added incrementally There are a couple of properties to control the behavior of the user cache listed below.

Property Description Default Value

tvc.core.cache.user.mode

Cache is loaded during tvc initialization

onStart

tvc.core.cache.user.enabled

Use cache or always query database for role or group

true

tvc.core.cache.user.role.filter.name

Name pattern to filter what roles are initially cached on start up

*

tvc.core.cache.user.role.filter.where

Where clause to filter what roles are initially cached on start up

name nmatch ctx* && name nmatch *PRJ

tvc.core.cache.user.group.filter.name

Name pattern to filter what groups are initially cached on start up

*

tvc.core.cache.user.group.filter.where

Where clause to filter what groups are initially cached on start up

1.3. Recent objects

Recent objects is a filter that can be used to store recently visited objects. It is configured via servlet filter in the web.xml

<filter>
	<filter-name>RecentObjectFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>com.technia.tvc.core.gui.recentobject.http.RecentObjectFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
	<filter-name>RecentObjectFilter</filter-name>
	<url-pattern>/common/emxTree.jsp</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

There are some settings to control the recent objects below:

Property Description Default Value

tvc.core.recentobject.handler

What handler to use to store recent objects. There are two built in handlers, dataobject and set

dataobject

tvc.core.recentobject.limit

The limit of how many recent objects should be stored

20

tvc.core.recentobject.handler.set.name

When using the set handler the name of the set to be stored

Recent Objects

tvc.core.recentobject.handler.class

Defining a custom RecentObjectHandler by implementing com.technia.tvc.core.gui.recentobject.RecentObjectHandler

There is a built in loader defined that can be used to populate a structure browser table with recent objects com.technia.tvc.structurebrowser.recentobject.loader.RecentObjectLoader

1.4. 3DDashboard

TVC can run inside a widget in 3DDashboards with limited support. As an administrator you can login to 3DDashboards and add a custom widget, the widget can then be configured through the widget preferences in the administrators dashboard or through json configuration file. As configurations are listed automatically in preferences UI admin is responsible for setting up and distributing proper/working configurations.

After a dashboard has been configured the administrator can share this to the users.

The available actions in widget preferences is:

Property Description Path

Structure

When selectig structure a list of pageconfigs will be available for the user to choose from

/tvc-action/oi-navigate

Flat

When selectig flat a list of pageconfigs will be available for the user to choose from

/tvc-action/oi-execCustomLoaderToTable

Grid

When selectig grid a list of gridbrowserconfigs will be available for the user to choose from

/tvc-action/gridLoad

Dashboard

When selectig dashboard a list of dahsboardconfigs will be available for the user to choose from

/tvc-action/dashboard

Page

When selectig page a list of helium page configs will be available for the user to choose from

/goto/p
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Figure 3. Widget Conf
In widget preferences actions will be listed based on components/plugins installed as below.
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Figure 4. All available actions
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Figure 5. Installed actions only
certain pageconfigs that is available might be intended for contextual view and does not have a loader defined in the pageconfig parameters. These can throw error when the widget is loaded.

The widget preferences can also be configured through the server side json configuration file.

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Figure 6. Dashboard Conf

A basic configuration could look like this

{
	"title": "Collaboration",
	"path": "/tvc/collaboration/tvcCollaborationPanelContent.jsp",
	"parameters": "embedded=true",
	"subscriptions": "mydocs,otherwidget",
	"custom": "true"
}

1.4.1. Publish / Subscribe

To use the DS built in publish/subscribe functionality, an administrator could setup the widgets like below picture.

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Figure 7. Publish / Subscribe

The "Table Link Publish" checkbox is checked and the fields Id and Subscriptions appear. This will make the normal column link in structure browser to publish when clicked instead of the normal behavior of linking. The subscribing widget (the widget with the id of the publishing widget in its subscription field) will then reload and the objectId of the link will be parsed from the published row and then appended to the url of the subscribing widget. This makes the widget interact. Parameterized DataSets could be useful to use in certain cases for the subscribing widget.

Property Description Default Value

title

Title of the widget

TVC

path

The path used in context of 3dspace

parameters

Additional parameters appended to the url

custom

Stating that this widget is custom configured through the json file

false

id

id used by widget

Uniquely generated

subscriptions

Comma separated list of widget ids that the widget is subscribing to

searchDroppable

Whether or not it should be possible to drop from search on widget

true

droppableTypes

What type of objects should be possible to drop
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Figure 8. Dashboard View
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Figure 9. When doing a search and dragging objects from the search result a drop zone will open inside the widget above the content, when dropping the object ids of the objects will be appended to the widgets URL

1.4.2. Configurations in Widget Preferences

Configurations for the selected preference can be done by adding filter pattern to tvc.properties. Keep the required configurations under the folder instead of using all the configuration. If filter pattern is not mention in tvc.properties then all configurations will be used.

tvc.3ddashboard.configurations.filter.domain = acme

1.4.3. 3DDashboard widget in external location

  • Add the Widget Folder as a service

    • Add a VirtualHost on a port that will be used only internally on the server (eg :- port 9999)

    • Adjust the below example to your server configuration

    • In case of doubt, ask to your server administrator.

#Start BT Widgets Added by
Listen 9999

### Main virtual host configuration, update port in not using the default 443
<VirtualHost *:9999>
	DocumentRoot "<3D Exp Installation Dir>/V6R2019x/WidgetsCusto/"

	### Server name and alias
	ServerName  19xdev.technia.com
	ServerAlias *.technia.com

	ProxyRequests Off
	SSLEngine on

	SSLCertificateFile		conf/ssl/star_technia_com.crt
	SSLCertificateKeyFile	conf/ssl/star_technia_com.key
	SSLCACertificateFile    conf/ssl/DigiCertCA.crt

	<Directory "<3D Exp Installation Dir>/V6R2019x/WidgetsCusto/">
		Options MultiViews FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride all
		Require all granted
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

  • Add a reverse proxy redirection

    • In the https definition block

Listen 443
<VirtualHost *:443>

  • Add the definition of the redirection :

    • If the SSLProxyEngine option is already defined, check that it’s set to "on"

    • Adjust with the name of your server.

SSLProxyEngine on
ProxyPass /Widgets https://19xdev.technia.com:9999 retry=0
ProxyPassReverse /Widgets https://19xdev.technia.com:9999

  • Once the configuration file is saved, restart the reverse proxy.

  • If everything is working well, with this example of configuration, you can:

    • Put the widgets code and its dependanceis in.

<3D Exp Installation Dir>/V6R2019x/WidgetsCusto/

  • Call the url to access the widget:

https://19xdev.technia.com/Widgets/MyWidget/widget.html

All widgets in TVC now support the 3D Dashboard search.

Table data in the widgets can now be filtered in based on search in the current dashboard.

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Figure 10. Result after search in 3dDashboard

1.4.5. Support for 6WTags

Once table data is loaded in a widget all visible columns get added into preferences.

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Figure 11. 6WTags Column Preferences

User can select the column and its category from preferences which needs to be shown under 6WTags.

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Figure 12. 6WTags

Table data in the widgets can now be filtered on the basis of selected tag.

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Figure 13. Filtered Data using 6WTags
6WTags would be updated on following conditions:

  • Table Change

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Figure 14. 6WTags before Table change
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Figure 15. Updated 6WTags on Table change

  • Change pagination size from table preferences.

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Figure 16. 6WTags before changing the size
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Figure 17. updated 6WTags after changing the size

  • Change column visibility from table configurator.

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Figure 18. 6WTags before changing column Visibility
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Figure 19. 6WTags After changing column Visibility

  • InCellEdit

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Figure 20. 6WTags before editing the cell value
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Figure 21. 6WTags before editing the cell value
All above features of 6Wtags are also supported for multiple widgets.