This document describes the introduction to VPT
Visual Product Tree (VPT) is an interactive web based navigational structure of the company products. It allows viewer to navigate through the products; from the top level assembly to sub-assemblies to the components level, visually and interactively.
Visual Product Tree is designed to provide technical support to customers, field service technicians, manufacturing engineers, manufacturing operations and technical training personnel.
This online documentation is designed to give you an understanding of VPT application and how to use it.
VPT application has five major elements as described below:
- Table-of-content
- Table-of-Content lists all existing Visual Product Tree created by VPT application
- Table-of-Content also allows you to add new Visual Product Tree
- Parts List (Record Administration) is used to manage records of the parts in the parts list
- Parts List allows you to add parts to the parts list
- Parts List allows you to edit parts into the parts list
- Parts List allows you to delete parts from the parts list
- Parts List allows you to display parts from the parts list
- Parts List allows you to list three parts per page from the parts list
- Parts List allows you to search parts by Part No and/or Description from the parts list
- VPT Builder is used to manage the drill-down structure of the Visual Product Tree with rollovers
- Sub-component Section
- Sub-Component section allows you to add parts to create drill-down structure of Visual Product Tree
- Sub-Component section allows you to delete parts from the drill-down structure of Visual Product Tree
- Rollover Section
- Rollover section allows you to add rollovers to the Sub-Components
- Rollover section allows you to edit rollovers to the Sub-Components
- Rollover section allows you to delete rollovers of the Sub-Components
- VPT Reviewer is used to test the Visual Product Tree
- Check the drill-down structure with rollovers in the Sub-Component section
- Check the drill-down structure with rollovers in the Interactive Image section
- Check the backward and jump back links in the Navigation Trail section
- VPT Flatview is used to check the Product Tree in the form of Bill-of-Material (BOM)
- Product hierarchy is displayed according to the top level assembly, their sub-assemblies and their components, with part numbers and their descriptions