Viewing Summary
Situation: You want to see the overview of the software variant proposal and the information related to it.
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click the Summary
icon in the navigator.
You can see all the variant details (e.g. variant name, customer, variant version, product images) and variant statistics(e.g. counts of settings changed from default, possible errors, number of notes appended to settings and more).
You can access the settings with notes by clicking respective row, as well as settings with erroneous values.
By clicking on the statisctics you will see the particular lists of settings with the errors, changes and notes.
Viewing Change History
Situation: You want to get an overview of the changes made to the software variant proposal.
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click the Summary
icon in the navigator.
You can see the change history as a list in the Summary. The change history text comes from the note the user has written in the Save as... dialog.
Properties View
Properties of Resources Library items
Situation: You want to see details of an image, audio or video file located in your Resources library. Carbide.v can show details for any file, but it can only provide you details on supported image, audio and video file types.
The following image, audio and video formats are supported for preview:
- Image formats: svg, bmp, png, jpg, gif
- Audio formats: mp3
- Video formats: mpeg, avi
To view the properties for a resource, do the following:
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Click the Resources library view to make it active.
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In the Resources library select an image, audio or video file you want to see the details of
The Properties view shows appropriate image, audio or video file details
(depending on type of item system shows properties like image size, color depth, audio and video codecs, etc.)
Properties of settings
Situation: You want to see details of a setting like description, allowed values, etc.
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Select a setting you want to see the details of
The Properties view shows appropriate setting details including settting's description, value ranges, default or notes
Appending notes via Properties view
Situation: You want to append a note for a setting via propeties view.