The Items tab contains options for configuring units of measure, categories, lifecylce revisions, managing item properties, and defining custom numbering schemes. You can also disable the items feature.
Item Enablement
Enable or disable the Items feature to better control user access.
- Click Configure to display the Enable Items and Change Orders dialog box.
Units
The units of measure are displayed in the Units of Measure dialog box. New units can also be defined.
- Click Configure to display the Units of Measure dialog box.
Lifecycles and Revisions
Rules for bumping the revision can be specified as well as the default revision sequence to use. New revision sequences can also be defined. Automatic file locking can also be enforced on the Items tab.
- Click Rules to display the Administer Lifecycles dialog box and review the bump revision rules.
- Click Configure to change the display name of a lifecycle state.
- Click Security to configure user access to files associated to released items.
Visualization Watermarking
The lifecycle state of an item can be indicated using a watermark on the associated visualization file. The watermark text, style, and position can be customized.
- Click Enable Visualization Watermarking to watermark visualization files associated with items.
- Click Configure to specify watermark options.
Disable Assignment of Design Files (Vault Professional 2012)
You can choose to disable the ability to assign item to design files such as .idw files. If this option is checked design files will only be linked to the Items for which they represent.
Access the Items Tab
- Click Tools
Administration Vault Settings. - In the Vault Settings dialog box, select the Items tab.
Configure Items Use
Disable the Items feature or give users the ability to override the disablement on the Enable Items and Change Orders dialog box.
- Click Tools Administration Vault Settings.
- In the Vault Settings dialog box, select the Items tab.
- In the Item Enablement section, click Configure. The Enable Items and Change Orders dialog box provides options for controling Items access.
- Select the No option to disable Items.
- Select the Allow user override check box to let users override the disablement. The override is performed on the Options dialog for the application settings.
- Click Close.
Configure Units of Measure
- Click Tools Administration Vault Settings.
- In the Vault Settings dialog box, select the Items tab.
- In the Units section, click Configure. The Units of Measure dialog box lists the base units and calculated units.
- Click New.
- In the Name dialog box, enter a name for the new unit.
- In the Symbols dialog box, enter a symbol for the new unit.
- Select a base unit from which the new unit is calculated.
- The conversion factor is a multiplier applied to the base unit to calculate the new unit. Enter a conversion factor.
- If the new unit is a base unit, select the This is a Base Unit check box. If this option is selected, the new unit is available in the base unit list when creating other units.
- Click OK.
- In the Units of Measure dialog box, click OK.
To Remove a Custom Unit of Measure
- In the Units of Measure dialog box, select the unit of measure from the list, and then click Delete.