Setting up the PBS definition in Lexicon

The appearance of the PBS explorer is defined in Lexicon and stored in the dictionary database. All the PBS definitions are created below the PBS World (PBSWLD), which can own PBS Templates (PBSTPL). Each PBS Template defines a separate PBS hierarchy and will be presented in the PBS Explorer as a single root node. This makes it possible to define several PBS structures; for instance one structure might present engineering items organised by system, another might show schematic elements by class or other properties, and another might be used for presenting design data.

Elements in the PBS Template define the data, and its organisation, to be shown in the structure. The data is in the PBS tree as text nodes, or nodes connected to existing database elements. In both cases, there is a choice of different methods for generating the result nodes.

For full details, please refer to the Admin manuals.