Processes & Workflows in Altium NEXUS Server
This document is no longer available beyond version 5.0. Information can now be found here: Processes & Workflows in Altium On-Prem Enterprise Server for version 7.0
Altium NEXUS provides a powerful collaborative design environment. Part of that is the support for Workflows, that guide a company's designers through typical, everyday design processes such as:
- Requesting new managed parts
- Performing project-related activities, such as design reviews or publishing to a PLM
- Creation of new managed projects.
Each Workflow that is used to implement a particular design process is created as part of a Process Definition. It can therefore be referred to as that process's underlying Workflow, or simply a Process Workflow.
Processes, and their Workflows, are created and managed through the NEXUS Server's browser interface – by an Administrator of that server. For the three design areas mentioned previously, predefined process workflows are included with your server installation. Some of these are activated for use out-of-the-box. Use these, modify them, or create your own as required, to suit the needs of your company. Others are samples – these cannot be activated and used as is. Each of these is therefore more like a 'template' – edit to suit your company's requirements, name, and save as a new process definition, which you can then activate and use, along with all other definitions.
A powerful Process Workflow Editor provides the flexibility for you to build processes with workflows that can be as simple, or as complex as needed, and in-line with your company's requirements.