Filter Catalog Behavior: Data Sheet

Accessing this behavior This behavior can be accessed by clicking the Filter Catalog Behavior icon () in the Doc Based Behaviors toolbar.
Describing this behavior This behavior enables you to open a catalog containing documents of features (like PowerCopies, or User-Defined Features) by using the catalog browser. If you used keywords to accelerate the search, the value of the keyword that will be used as a filter can be specified in the behavior. 
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  • A template can now be instantiated without any user interaction. If the catalog of templates contains only one template, it is automatically selected.
It is possible to define a query to filter the catalog during the execution of this behavior. To do so, add inputs to the behavior, their values will be used to filter the content of the catalog.
  • Note that this behavior has 2 different outputs:
ChosenPath is valuated if the catalog contains documents. Chosen path will be the path of the selected document. Feature is not valuated. See the screen shot of a catalog containing documents below. Click the graphic below to enlarge it.

Note that the item you select in the catalog is not loaded in the session.
Feature is valuated if the catalog contains User Features, PowerCopies, or Document Templates. Feature corresponds to the selected object and Chosen path corresponds to the name of the document that contains the Power Copy or the User Feature. See the screen shot of a catalog containing Power Copies below. Click the graphic below to enlarge it.

DisplayName is useful if you want to use a particular name for the chosen documents stored in the database.
Using this Behavior Interface

 

Name: Name attributed to the behavior.
Comment: Comment attributed to the behavior.
Catalog document File path: Indicate the catalog file path. Note that you do not have to specify the complete path. Catalogs are located by default in the directory identified by the CATGraphicPath environment variable.
Note that you may also leave the path unset. In this case, the end-user will select a catalog file in the user workbench.
  • It is possible to insert catalogs from ENOVA LCA. To do so, make sure you have enabled the ENOVIA environment in the Document Environments field (Tools>Options>General>Document.) Your documents will be accessible via the Document Chooser.
  • It is now possible to insert catalogs from specific directories that are assigned a logical name, referred to as a "DLName". To do so, make sure you have enabled the DLName environment in the Document Environments field (Tools>Options>General>Document.)
Filtering Keywords Enables you to add keywords whose names will be identical to the ones contained in the catalog. These keywords will be used to filter and to navigate though the catalog.
Using this behavior The expert user uses a manikins catalog and wants to retrieve the manikins whose size matches the EEC standards.