Enterprise Data

There are two kinds of enterprise data that are managed by the system: common enterprise data (CED) and view-specific enterprise data (VSED), also known as plant information. Common enterprise data consists of attributes and related objects that are shared across all revisions and iterations of a particular part master. View-specific enterprise data consists of attributes and related objects that are shared across all revisions and iterations of a particular view of a part.

Information pages contain a list of applicable actions in an Actions menu located in the upper left corner of the page. See Common Actions for a list of actions available for many objects in Windchill. The availability of these actions depends on the status of the enterprise data, as well as your access to it. For more information about status indicators, see Object Status.

Only those users who are a member of the PTC MPMLink Module License, PTC Manufacturing License, or PTC BOM Transformation License profile have access to the following actions:

• Check In

• Check Out

• Check Out and Edit

• Undo Checkout

• Edit

• Edit Common Attributes

• Revise

• Set State

• New > New Promotion Request

All users can access other actions in the menu.

The following tabs are viewable on the enterprise data Information page. You can customize the tabs that appear on each object Information page to display the information most useful to you. For more information, see Customizing Information Page Tabs.

Administrators have the ability to modify the tabs that are viewable to you.

Tab	Description
Details	The Details tab displays the attributes of an object. For a list of common attributes available in Windchill, see Object Attributes.
Related Objects	The Related Objects tab allows you to view, add, change, or remove related document and part associations. You can also add enterprise data objects to a baseline using this tab. The following tables are listed in this tab: • Described By Documents • References Documents • CAD/Dynamic Documents • Parts • Plan Activities • Baselines
Changes	The Changes tab displays change objects related to the selected enterprise data. You can view the following tables on this tab: • Issues and Variances • Change Requests • Affected by Change Notices • Resulting from Change Notices For more information on this tab, see Change Information Tables.
History	The History tab lets you view the entire process of the object through its workflow states. The tab displays the following tables: • Version History • Timeline History For more information on this tab, see History Information Tables.

By default there is a data utility configured for the Version attribute in both common enterprise data and view specific enterprise data. However, if you create a new layout for this data, adding your own Version attributes, then you must assign a data utility ID to ensure that the proper values appear in the Manufacturing Associative Product Structure Browser. If you do not, then your customized Version attribute is shown as un-assignable.