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In addition to connecting to an Altium Vault through Altium Designer, and interfacing to it through the Vaults panel, you can also connect to it through a dedicated browser interface. In fact, connection in this way is more than just a connection to the Vault itself. Rather it is a connection into the Altium Vault platform, with access to management interfaces for the various services available as part of the wider Vault installation. Indeed, with some of these services, your only interaction with them is through this browser-based interface.
To access your local Altium Vault through its browser-based interface, simply use a preferred external Web browser and type the address for the Vault in one of the following formats:
http://<ComputerName>:<PortNumber>
http://localhost:<PortNumber>
- if accessing from the same computer on which the Vault is installed.(e.g. http://designerhome:9780
, or http://localhost:9780, for an Altium Vault installed using the default port assignment). You will be presented with a Sign-in page.
Sign in through the browser interface using the same Vault credentials used to connect through Altium Designer. For a newly installed Altium Vault, there is a default administrative user with the credentials:
Access an Altium Vault, and its associated platform services, through a preferred external Web browser. Roll the mouse over the image to see the effect of successfully signing
in to the interface.
The interface provides a number of key technologies and services, and can be coarsely divided into two groupings, as shown in the following image, and listed thereafter.
The overall browser interface can be divided into two distinct sets of interface elements - those accessible in general by all users of the Vault, and those accessible only by Vault
Administrators.
The following sections summarize the elements of the Vault's browser interface that can be accessed by all users of the Vault - both administrators and standard users.
This page provides quick reference information, tailored to, and relevant for, the Vault user who is currently signed in through the interface.
Example content for a user on their Home page.
The page presents two lists:
Related pages: Managing Users, How to Configure LDAP Sync with the Altium Vault
This page provides the interface to the Identity Service (IDS), to define Vault (and other service) access, through specification of users and roles.
Access and manage the users of your Altium Vault.
Controls are spread over the following sub-pages:
Related page: Managed Projects
This page provides the interface to the Projects service, to create and manage projects in a central location, and share those projects for team collaboration as required. The page lists all Managed Projects for the organization. Managed Projects target the development stage of the project lifecycle, simplifying the creation and ongoing workflow for version controlled projects. From here you can create new projects, and open and manage existing ones. From this interface, a project can also be shared, or rather its access permissions configured.
Centralized project management - all part of your Altium Vault installation.
Related page: Browsing Content from a Web Browser
This page gives you access to the structure of the Altium Vault, and is similar in presentation and layout to that of the Vaults panel. From here, you will be able to browse the folders and Items within the Vault. And although you can't create or edit Items from within the browser interface (you can remove them), you are able to create and edit folders, and so build the structure of the Vault, without having to be connected to that Vault through Altium Designer.
You can also define sharing from this interface - controlling who is able to see what content in the Vault, and whether other users can simply view a folder and its content, or also edit it (effectively releasing design data into it). A single Vault can be partitioned into various effective 'zones' of content, but with controlled permissions, the content can be made selectively visible, or hidden, as required - giving the right people, the right access, to the right data.
Content can also be downloaded from the Vault, directly from this interface.
Browse and define the structure of your Altium Vault, as well as defining access and being able to download content.
Related page: Part Requests
This page enables you to create and manage requests for new Vault components. An engineer can simply put in a request for one or more parts to be created, to a member of a librarian-nominated role, and get notified when that request has either been rejected (and why), or processed, and the component(s) made available. The requestor supplies as much key information to support their request as possible (manufacturer and part number(s), description(s), any relevant datasheet (PDF or URL)). Stub Component Items can even be created that the librarian can then run with (and finish off).
Create and manage requests for new parts through the Part Requests area of the Vault's browser-based interface.
This page provides a live feed of event notifications, applicable to, and relevant for, the Vault user who is currently signed in through the interface. The page can be accessed in two ways:
Example content for a user on their Stream page.
Each message in the stream carries similar information:
By default, all notification types are presented (unless accessed from the Inbox control, in which case only unread notifications will be listed). To change this, click on the All control and choose a particular notification type to display. Supported notification types are:
The following sections summarize the elements of the Vault's browser interface that can only be accessed by Administrative users of the Vault - those who are part of the Administrators role. Access to these elements is through the dedicated ADMIN menu, located to the far right of the standard page headers.
Related page: Local Version Control Service
This page (ADMIN » VCS) provides the interface to the Vault installation's local Version Control Service, for managing the SVN-based Design Repositories that designers in the organization can validly access and use while working on design projects. Repositories can be created through this service, or external repositories can be connected to.
The browser-based interface to the Altium Vault's local SVN-based VCS service.
This page (ADMIN » PART PROVIDERS) enables you to define a list of Part Sources - facilitating centralized supply chain management, with designers across the entire organization using the same approved list of Part Sources, with which to source supply chain intelligence for parts used in their designs.
The available Part Sources in the Vault are:
The actual supply chain intelligence - comprising Manufacturer (and part number), Supplier (and part number), Description, Pricing and Availability - is sourced from the Vault's local Part Catalog and the relevant Part Source.
Enabling required Suppliers and determining Location/Currency ranges for the Altium Parts Provider. This is the default Part Source for the Altium Vault. You can also add
any number of links to internal company parts databases.
Related page: Network Installation Service
This page (ADMIN » INSTALLATIONS) provides the interface to the Network Installation Service, through which you can perform installations or updates to Altium products over your local network, and enables centralized control of software availability, configuration and its capabilities. Using NIS, you acquire software product files from Altium, and then assemble these into a configurable software deployment package. The locally stored package can then be deployed to networked workstations as a software installer executable (*.msi
), or as a direct installation using Microsoft’s Active Directory Group Policy.
The INSTALLATIONS page of the Altium Vault's browser-based interface - your connection to the Network Installation Service.
Controls are spread over the following tabs:
Related page: Environment Configuration Management
This page (ADMIN » CONFIGURATIONS) provides the interface to the Team Configuration Center (delivered through the Vault installation as theTeam Configuration Service). The role of the Team Configuration Center (sometimes referred to as TC2) is simplicity itself - to give the organization centralized control over the environment its designers operate in. It achieves this through the definition and management of Environment Configurations. These are used to constrain each designer's Altium Designer working environment to only use company-ratified design elements, including schematic templates, output job configuration files, and workspace preferences. In other words, it facilitates Centralized Environment Configuration Management.
Any number of environment configurations may be defined through the Center's dedicated browser-based interface. The data used and enforced by each configuration - referred to as Configuration Data Items - are sourced from the Altium Vault. And by associating each environment configuration with a specific user role, and in turn assigning users to those roles, the correct working environment is loaded into Altium Designer as soon as the user signs in to the Altium Vault. Using this role-based approach ensures that a designer always gets the setup they are entitled to, no matter whether they have their own PC, or are sharing a single PC with fellow designers.
The interface allows for an administrator to craft one or more environment configurations, depending on the needs of the organization. Each configuration requires the definition of:
Access the Team Configuration Service, from where to define and manage environment configurations for your organization.
This page (ADMIN » STATUS) provides status-related information for the Vault, and quick access to log files. It is presented over three regions:
The STATUS page provides installation details, as well as log files for the various services.
This page (ADMIN » SETTINGS) provides a collection of sub-pages relating to configuration of options relating to various features and services provided by, and through, an Altium Vault installation.
The Settings area - part of the admin-only pages within the Vault's browser-based interface.
The left-hand side provides a navigation tree with which to quickly access various sub-pages of settings. The following pages are available:
Related pages: Altium Vault Licensing, Private License Service,
This page (ADMIN » LICENSES) provides the interface to obtain and manage licenses - both for the licensing of the Vault itself, and also for serving to client machines over the local network, through the appropriately configured Private License Service (PLS).
Use the various tabs within the Licenses area to obtain, manage, and assign licensing, for the Vault, and for serving to your local network through the PLS. And use the various
reports that are available to keep an eye on license usage.
Three tabs are available:
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