Data dictionary overview

For systems design, key building blocks or components of designs are reused to save time and effort in typical functional and logical model-structure design activities. To facilitate reuse of these building blocks or components in multiple designs across several projects or programs, Teamcenter provides a central organizational repository for them. Designers can search for and find components based on criteria and reuse them in their designs.

Typically, the organizational repository is tightly controlled and the components or blocks in it have gone through a formal, customer-specific approval process. Once approved, the blocks or components are labeled as ready to use. This central organizational repository is referred to as a data dictionary. It allows you to organize data by your own criteria with the goal of reuse.

You can control access to the classes and classification objects making up a data dictionary. You do this in the Access Control pane.