Basic tasks with the data dictionary

The project administrator:

• Creates, modifies, and deletes projects.
• Assigns resources (users, groups, and roles) to a project.
• Removes users, groups, and roles from a project.
• Assigns, removes, and views dictionaries for a project.
• Associates designs to a project.
• Assigns access permissions for a project.

Systems and design engineers may use the following typical task flow for populating and accessing elements in a data dictionary:

• Works in an assigned project.
• Views the dictionary organization scheme in the Classification perspective and then navigates, browses, and searches the hierarchy for signals of interest.
• Adds functions, ports, and signals from the dictionary to the functional or logical model structure.
• If the required signal is not available or a signal needs modification:
  • Creates a new signal or revises an existing signal in My Teamcenter.
  • Submits a request for the data dictionary administrator to add the signal or signal revision to the dictionary.
  • The request is submitted to a company-specific approval process and the signal or signal revision is added to the dictionary.

The data dictionary administrator:

• Creates a dictionary hierarchy.
• Creates or modifies attributes in a dictionary.
• Adds signals to the applicable Signals library.
• Modifies or re-parents the dictionary hierarchy, if needed.
• Deletes dictionaries or their contents.

Note: Deleting a dictionary does not delete its contents, that is, the classified data assigned to it. Classified objects in a dictionary must be deleted by a separate procedure. Also, you must remove any associations with projects before you can delete a dictionary.

Related Topics

• Identifying the component subsystems of a product
• Process for creating a data dictionary