DriveWorks Pro 24

DriveWorks Live What's New

DriveWorks Live

General Enhancements

• Update times have been significantly enhanced by reducing the amount of data that is sent during updates.
• Wider use of browser caching to reduce the need to download resources (Pictures, DriveWorks 3D files etc.) from DriveWorks Live.

General Fixes

• DriveWorks Live no longer removes characters (from text boxes, numeric text boxes and measurement text boxes)  in certain situations, i.e. when typing at the same time as an update is received from DriveWorks Live.

New Theme Customization System

Prior to DriveWorks 9, there was a single "Theme" for DriveWorks Live which was designed to be very customizable and look and feel like a web site.

In DriveWorks 9 this theme has been significantly enhanced with:

• A much improved form updates system which can massively improve the performance of specifying.
• A new customization system which means that upgrading a customized theme from one service pack to the next should be automatic in most cases.

Web Theme

The Web Theme is designed to provide a true web experience with the flexibility of further customization. It supports the following features:

• The ability to change the website appearance and page behavior by choosing pre-loaded skins.
• The ability to give each page additional functionality by adding pre-loaded modules.
• Additional advanced customization from designing and writing your own skins and modules.

1. Click the Theme button from the command bar
   
2. Select the required Theme from the Theme configuration dialog.
   • Integration Theme - See Integration Theme for more information.

     

     When the Integration Theme has been selected some additional steps are required.

     See Select the Integration Theme for more information.

   • Web Theme - See Web Theme for more information.

     

3. Click Finish

The Web theme can have various levels of customization applied, this ranges from:

• Configuring the 3D Preview Service location (only required if using the 3D Preview Box control).
• Add an image and change the text on the project selection page.
• Choose a different skin to be applied to the web theme .
• Add and rearrange module layout on the default pages.

This level of Modification can only be done using the Web Theme as a starting point.

Application Theme

DriveWorks Live now includes a new "Application Theme".

This Application Theme is designed to provide most of the functionality of DriveWorks User with a similar look and feel. It supports the following features:

• A full Specification Explorer complete with filtering and custom property support.
• The Specification Explorer automatically updates the information, including documents, about the selected specification periodically.
• The ability to view specification and model generation reports.
• The ability to hide/show archived specifications.
• The ability to add/remove/edit users and teams, if the logged on user has the permissions to do so.
• The ability to change your own password.
• The ability open the specification folder for the selected specification if the user is using Internet Explorer.