Activity 1: Activate the Fusion Manage Extension

In this activity, you’ll explore key concepts about the Fusion Manage Extension, including its purpose, site, workspace, item, workflow, lifecycle, and change order. After this, you’ll activate the Fusion Manage Extension site for your hub.

Prerequisites

Before you can complete this activity, you must:

• Install the Fusion desktop client.
• Be the administrator of your Fusion hub.
• Complete all topics in Get started for administrators.
• Be assigned a license to use the Fusion Manage Extension. You can check this in the Fusion desktop client in the Extensions dialog.

Steps

1. Familiarize yourself with all key Fusion Manage Extension key concepts.

   1. Read through all topics in Get started with the Fusion Manage Extension.

      These topics introduce you to what the Fusion Manage Extension is and the key concepts you’ll need to understand how to use and administer it.

2. Observe that the Fusion Manage Extension has not yet been activated.

   1. Open the Fusion web client for your hub.

   2. At the top of the page beside the search icon, notice there is no Process link.

      

3. Activate the Fusion Manage Extension from the Fusion desktop client.

   1. Launch the Fusion desktop client and log in.

   2. In the Data Panel, select the hub that you created for your organization.

   3. Open or create any component. It does not matter what component you use, but it must be saved to a project.

   4. Open the Manage tab.

   5. Click any button on this tab. For example, click Assign Item Number.

      

      A dialog opens indicating that you have not yet enabled the Fusion Manage Extension for this hub.

   6. Select the box indicating that you understand the message in the dialog, and click Enable.

   7. Close the window.

Your Fusion Manage Extension site is being created in the background and you’ll be notified when it is ready.

Activity 1 Summary

In this activity, you explored key concepts regarding the Fusion Manage Extension and activated your Fusion Manage Extension site.