Catalog articles

Open the register "Catalog article" in the view "View / Manufacturer with accompanying data" and select the wanted manufacturer.

Catalog articles are not MDM devices and so they cannot be approved in projects or MFL! Catalog articles can be used for the request "new device" in order to create a new MDM device.

Catalog articles are organized by the column "device class", additional columns can be created corresponding to "device class" in order to give further information to the catalog article.

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If an entry exist in the column "MDM Id" a corresponding MDM device is available - displayed by a click on the button "Show MDM device". The detail view is opened by click on the button or by double click on the catalog article.

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By clicking on the button "Edit on" and afterwards on

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•"Add catalog article" additional articles can be created manually

•"Delete catalog article" articles can be deleted

•"Edit selected article" article can be edited.

Editing is also possible in the MDM.

Catalog article import by Excel

Attention! Catalog articles are organized by the device classes. If you want to link the imported catalog articles with the field "device class" and if the respective data are entered in the Excel template, these entries must be entered in the device classes before you´ll start the import! Otherwise the imported catalog articles will not be linked with the device class. Device class (component manufacturer)

Attention! If you want to import catalog articles with URLs, these URLs must exist with defined matchcodes before you´ll start the import. The import od documents / files is only possible, if they can be downloaded from an URL (usually by the manufacturer´s hopepage or electronic mall). Record_documents

Open the register "Catalog article import" on the tab "Catalog article" and click on the button "Save import template". Select in the following dialog the target folder for the file "CatalogArticleImportTemplate.xlsx".

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The Excel file is opened and is to be edited as usual.

If you want to import catalog articles with URLs, these URLs must exist with defined matchcodes before you´ll start the import. The entries in the column "Document match codes" must exactly match the entries in the column "Match code" in the register "Record documents"!

The import of documents / files is only possible, if they can be downloaded from an URL (usually by the manufacturer´s hopepage or electronic mall). Record_documents If you want to allocate several URL / documents to a catalog artikel, please separate them by commas.

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By clicking on the button "Import catalog articles" the import starts displaying the following message:

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and is completed successfully:

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Create device out of a catalog article

By clicking on the button "Create device from catalog article" a MDM device will be created. The data from the catalog article will be transferred to the MDM device.

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The detail view is opened. By clicking on "Edit on", the entering of data an clicking on "Save and close" the MDM device is created.

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Assign devices to catalog articles again

By clicking on the button "Reassign devices for catalog article" the search for MDM devices corresponding to the catalog articles of a certain manufacturer starts again.

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In the list of MDM devices the former catalog articles are displayed with their MDM Id.

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Request for a new device using a catalog article

If you need for your project a device that exists not yet in the MDM, you can make a request for a new device entering data and documents / URLs manually. VESCON checks the data quality of new devices in the workflow of “requests for new devices“. If data do not fulfill the requirements, the request will be sent back to the sender for the purpose of revision.

With the intention to simplify this workflow and to improve data quality it is possible to request a new MDM device directly using catalog articles provided by manufacturers with the status "premium" (displayed by a green point).

Benefits for all MDM users:

•The quality of catalog article data is guaranteed because they are provided directly by the manufacturers. Catalog data can be imported anytime again so that they are always latest.

•By the excel interface manufacturers data can be made available without redundancies and without multiple acquisition directly from the commercial or technical data sources.

•If documents or URLs are uploaded, they will be automatically updatet in the MDM, if the data sources are updated.

•The workflow "request for new devices" is simplified during application, quality check, approval and final check by the manufacturers, and will so be expedited.

•Catalog articles are only available and free of charge for manufacturers with the status "premium" (displayed by a green point).

Procedure:

1.Go to the tab "View" and there to "Component manufacturers and corresponding data".

2.Filter and mark in the left part of the window the manufacturer and open the tab "Catalog articles".

3.Filter and mark in the grid the catalog article which you want to assemble to a MDM device.

4.Click in the right register on the tab  "Requests / Tasks" and on the button "Request for new device""

5.The required data including documents / URLs are committed, only the structure element must be selected and a remark concerning the request must be entered. (see also Request_new_device , General information on editing tasks , Guideline for the request for new devices ).

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Here you can find all information you need concerning arranging, editing and analyzing all tables displayed in every MDM view: Tables.