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Customizing Product Family Matrix Editor
You can launch the Matrix Editor for the following Product Family objects:
A single Product Family
One or more managed variant specifications
One or more variant baselines
The action to launch the Matrix Editor for the selected variant specifications or variant baselines, or both is available from the following areas:
The Actions menu on the Variant Baseline information page and the Variant Specification information page
Tables that display and allow you to select variant baselines and managed variant specifications
The Folder Browser page
The Advanced Search table
The Baseline Objects table for a variant baseline
The related Variant Specifications table for a part
If the Matrix Editor is launched with initial parts such as module variants, configurable modules, lower level parts (for example, from the folder browser), then a Path Filter is created for those parts.
Adding Support to Launch Matrix Editor
For information on how to customize actions, see Action Framework for Windchill Client Architecture.
You can use the following actions to add launch points for the Matrix Editor:
Action Name
Action Type
Description
openInMatrixEditorRMB
productfamily
Action to use in the right mouse button that is a single-select location such as a right-click option in the Product Family Structure Browser.
openInMatrixEditor
productfamily
Action to use in a multi-select context such as a tool bar.