User experience

The application supports users who prefer a graphical approach or a list-type approach. Standard list views and detailed views are available. You can create views based on your company role. These views show basic data, products, and other information in a list of card view. Detailed information is stored in one of more clusters. These clusters are similar to tabs.

These generic features are on most standard list views:

  • Elastic Search
  • Filters, typically drop-down lists
  • Advanced filters, with options to select dates, text fields, and drop-down lists, and to save the selection for reuse
  • Sort by
  • Freeze column, to make scrolling easier and keep certain columns on the left
  • Export to Excel for selected fields
  • Export to Excel All, available in certain functions, including the query tool
  • Group information into clusters

List views

List views are views showing rows for one or more items in the requested function. The system comes with default list views also referred to as grid views. In Admin Views, you can make views for each role, for example, removing fields or adding fields that are not visible in the default view. Aside of the standard list view functions, there are special features when opening a list view.

Special features for list views include these functions:

  • Ability to personalize and save views
  • Ability to edit the list view (Styles) for certain fields
  • Ability to export all items (in selected grids with a maximum of the indicated number of rows on the grid)
  • In certain programs, the export all (rows) to Excel is enabled

Detailed views

A detailed view is reached by selecting an item on a list view. The system comes with default detailed views. In Admin Views, you can make views per role, for example, removing or adding fields (extended fields) that are not visible in the default view.

Standard Card views

A card view is a graphical representation of information. Card views are available for style, material, trim, color library, style, material, trim colorways, and PLM Document Library.

For style colorways card view, styles are shown by colors. In this view, you can view a group by feature, allowing you to check styles by different entities such as theme, brand, division, or collection.

Personal configurable line sheet card view - Style Colorway Board

The Style Colorway Board is a configurable card view that you can use to create cards ad hoc while you work.

You can use the Style Colorway Board to:

  • Define a card with ad hoc content
  • Share cards
  • Save a card as a personalized card and share the personalized card with other users
  • Use borders and different letter types for cards
  • Jump to different Style functions

The Style Colorway Board can show information in rows and columns. For example, the Style Colorway Board can show information by style color theme in rows and style color channel in columns.

Configurable card view - Role-based cards for PLM document library images

This configurable card view is created through Admin View and connected to a role. You can select several fields and like the images for visibility.

Contextual panes

Use the contextual panes to show data in context of a listed item. The sample application of this pane represents the supplier information, colors, sizes, images, tasks, relations (carry-over information), and where an item is used. Contextual panes are very often displayed in list format and cannot be configured. Most Contextual panes in list format can store your favorite layouts.

Action panes (browse)

Action panes act as a browse capability and show a list of items that you can search for and select (one or many) by dragging or dropping items to a detailed view. Action panes are currently a mixture of static list views and configurable list views.

Data access

For Style, Material, Trim, Request, and Flex Query View, the information on a list is filtered in these access types:

  • Organization access - data is filtered based on the access related to a level in the hierarchy
  • Partners (suppliers) - data is filtered based on shared products. Data sharing is done manually or automatically when a request is sent to a system partner