Enhancement Details
Windchill 10.0 General Usability Improvements
Windchill 10.0 incorporates a significant number of improvements that streamline any user’s experience and make work within Windchill more efficient.
Product Information
Benefits and Description
Windchill gets a major facelift in Windchill 10.0. The most immediately noticeable improvement is the modern, clean, and crisp color scheme and redesigned icons. Windchill 10.0 uses a sophisticated and dynamic widget set.
The next most noticeable feature is the Navigator component. Users have told us that they very seldom use the navigation links in the previous Windchill versions. So Windchill 10.0 gets them out of the way. Navigation and Search are now performed in the Navigator. This will make the search results always available: users don’t need to hit the browser back-button, causing the search to be re-executed, in order to go back to the search results.
Next are the table improvements. Tables are a major data presentation component in and Windchill 10.0 significantly improves their usability and functionality:
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Tables never overflow the page. If a table has more columns than can fit in the browser page, you will use the table’s horizontal scrollbar to see those columns.
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The table view dropdown menu is always in view.
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Create views more dynamically by hiding, resizing, and shifting columns then click “Save As View”.
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Scrolling rather than paging, as scrolling is more natural for users. Significant performance improvements were added in order to make scrolling possible. (Note: Windchill will resort to paging after a few thousand rows of data.)
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Tables will size themselves to the available space. That is, tables will grow and shrink (to display more or less rows) to fit the vertical space available on the page.
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“Find in Table” and “Find in Tree” allow users to quickly find data in large data sets. These allow users to display only those rows that match the criteria that they type in the filter box.
Other improvements include:
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Breadcrumbs: Placed above the page's content area, breadcrumbs orient users as to where they are in the application.
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Header and Footer: To declutter the UI and provide more vertical real estate, the page footer was removed and all the header links have been consolidated into the Quick Links menu.
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To make it clearer for the user and the system what to search on, a search type dropdown menu is added to the Windchill 10.0 header.
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The Search UI is significantly streamlined and modernized.
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Windchill 10.0 provides a Search History and Saved Searches page. This page shows a list of the recently executed searches and the list of the user’s saved searches.
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