Designs

This chapter covers the concepts of designs within projects, the Designs pane, and how to view designs in Capital Teamwork.

Designs Overview

The information contained within a project is arranged into distinct sub-containers called designs. Designs are versionable data containers whose contents can be copied as required. A design is usually created for each sub-system of a product line and contains diagrams created in one of the Capital design applications.

In Capital Teamwork you can create designs in the Capital database and view the attributes and user properties of a design (e.g., Part Number, Vehicle Type). Design attributes and properties are editable, and you can add additional documents to the design.

Tip: You cannot edit design content in Capital Teamwork — you must open the design in its source application or the Capital design applications to modify the content.

Designs Tabs

The Details pane for the Designs workflow contains the Design Type dropdown: Functional, Harness (default), Integrator, Logic, Platform, Topology.

Design type folders in the selected project display below the Filter field by default. Expand/collapse the folder tree to navigate and select a design, which shows tabs: Details, Attachments, Properties, Comments, Notes, Checklist.

View toggle icons:

• Tabular view — table of all designs in the project, for filtering by properties/attributes (see "Filtering Tables").
• List view — alphanumeric list of all designs.
• Tree view — design browser tree matching the structure in the design applications.

Note: The last view used is selected automatically on a new session. Icons let you search for designs and create new designs — see "Viewing Build Lists, Designs, and Issues."

Details Tab — attributes:

• Name — Unique identifier of the design.
• Revision — Version, allowing multiple updated versions of the same design in the Capital database.
• Short Description — Concise overview.
• Release Status — Current release level; dropdown selects the next transition level, per the "Build List Editing" behavior.
• Domain — Assigns a domain to permit access only to matching Domain Access users.
• Abstraction — Project-specific Design Abstraction label.
• Created — Date/time the design was created in the Capital database.
• Modified — Date/time of the most recent update.

Additional user properties (e.g., Derivate, Vehicle Type) can be specified in designconfig.json — see "Configuration JSON Files."

Attachments Tab — Displays attachments and DRC reports as supporting information, in a table: Name, Type, Key, Modified. Filter via Filter/Dropdown icons — see "Filtering Tables." Icons let you view DRC reports in-browser, and download/upload/delete attachments — see "Using Attachments."

Tip: File sizes up to 300 MB; edit designconfig.json for larger files.

Properties Tab — User properties from the source application; delete/add as Name/Value strings — see "Using Properties."

Collaborate Notifications — Restriction: requires the Capital Team Collaborator license assigned to your account (see "Licensing Options"). Use the Notify Me icons to be added/removed as a watcher of designs and receive email notifications (if configured) when design data, Collaborate content, or Issues associated with the design/build-list container change. System Administrators with the "Administration" Collaborate permission can use Manage Notifications to enable email notifications for specific users per design. Notification emails link to the design and updated Collaborate content/Issues; clicking linked design objects opens their Attributes and Properties dialog.

Comments Tab — Add multiple comments to designs, including image attachments and links — see "Using Comments."

Notes Tab — Add multiple notes to designs, including image attachments and links — see "Editing Designs."

Checklist Tab — Add multiple checklist tasks to designs, including image attachments and links — see "Editing Designs."

Using Designs

Covers creating designs and editing design properties/attachments.

Restriction: Refresh the web page or start a new Capital Teamwork session to activate permission/domain access modifications.

• To create design folders, the Create permission (Design Folder) must be assigned to your user account — see "Edit Project User Permissions" in the Capital Access Manager User Guide.
• Without domain access to a design, its name does not display in workflows for viewing/adding to build lists or selecting as an Issues container — see "Domain Restricted Visibility" in the Capital Access Manager User Guide.

Creating Designs

Restriction: No backslashes in new folder names.

Procedure:

1. Designs workflow → click Create new Design icon → choose a design type. A new Details tab with blank fields displays.
2. Specify attribute/property values (mandatory fields marked *).
3. (Optional) Choose an Abstraction to enable categorization/comparison.
4. (Optional) Set the Folder (existing name, or type a unique name to create a new one; browse via ellipsis).
5. (Optional) Fill in Attachments and Properties tabs — see "Common Tasks."
6. Click Create to save the design in the Capital database.

Editing Designs

Restrictions: To preserve frozen/unfrozen shared-object status, release levels configured with the Freeze Shared Objects or Unfreeze Shared Objects behavior are unavailable when transitioning a logical or functional design to a different release level. When creating designs, all Draft release levels are available regardless of behaviors selected. See "Release Level Behaviors" in the Capital Project Manager User Guide.

Prerequisite: A design is selected below the Filter field.

Procedure (choose the action):

If you want to...	Do the following...
Edit the details of a design	Details tab → edit property fields → click Update.
Change the release level	Details tab → Release Status dropdown → select the level (available levels are determined by transitions defined in Capital Project Manager) → click Update.
Assign/edit a Design Abstraction	Abstraction dropdown → choose an abstraction.
Edit the design's folder location	Folder field: specify existing/new folder name, browse via ellipsis, or click Delete icon to remove the folder location (places design at project root).
Delete a design	Click Delete icon → confirm Yes/No.
Add an attachment	See "Using Attachments."
Edit the Properties tab	See "Using Properties."
Edit the Notes tab	Click the note name to edit or delete it.
Edit the Comments tab	See "Using Comments."
Edit the Checklist tab	Type the task, format with the Edit toolbar, insert images/links, click Add. Use the More Actions dropdown on a task to edit, delete, or resolve it. Select the task check box to resolve; clear it to reopen.
Filter checklists on designs	Click Filter icon → choose status: All / Pending / Completed. The Filtered icon indicates an active filter.