Project: Configuration Management

User Interface

The Configuration Editor enables an editing and managing of configuration. It provides a generic, hierarchical view of the data and structures contained in the database.

You start the Configuration Editor outside of HiCAD, by executing the file ISDCONFIGEDITOR.EXE in the EXE directory of HiCAD.

The permissions to change profiles or settings depend on the behaviour of the Editor when it is started:

Users without administrator rights and users with administrator rights who did not select the Run as administrator option upon start:

• In the Editor, settings can be edited in the profile of the user who is currently logged on Windows.
• The switching to a different user is not possible. The selection box is greyed out.

Users with administrator rights who have selected the Run as administrator option (right-click and select from context menu) upon start:

• The administrator profile can be changed in the Editor.
• The switching to other existing profiles is possible via the selection box, which enables a checking and/or changing of the configurations of various users.

You can also start the Configuration Editor directly from HiCAD: At the top right corner of the HiCAD window, select Settings > Configuration.

You require administrator rights to start the Configuration Editor!

The user interface of the Configuration Editor consists of the following areas:

1. Menu bar
2. Toolbar
3. Search function
4. User selection
5. Current configuration structure tree
6. Data record of active configuration
7. User Management
8. Path of the currently selected structure item
9. Version and name of the configuration database

Important:

Changes in the Configuration Editor will only take effect after you re-start HiCAD. Only some particular settings, such as dimensioning pre-settings, can be applied, via the corresponding HiCAD functions, without a re-start.

Configuration Management (CM)