The VersionVault Work Area Manager

The VersionVault Work Area Manager (WAM) offers designers an interface that presents the information in a format most suitable with the workflow of designers.

This a key highlight of the VersionVault-Cadence integration because the Work Area Manager allows users to carry out design management operations besides displaying VersionVault-specific information. You can open the Work Area Manager from either the Design Manager menu or from the Browse Library submenu item in Properties (Design Manager > Properties).
VersionVault Work Area Manager

Features of the VersionVault Work Area Manager

  • It provides an elaborated display for every design artifact, with status, user information, version identifier, replica name, and configuration specification selection rules.
  • You can edit config spec rules to instantly change the configuration of the VersionVault view.
  • The Flatten library feature gives a flattened view of all cellviews in the library so that cellviews can be sorted, based on attributes such as source control state, user, time stamp, replica, and version.
  • You can select multiple library, cell or cellviews, and perform design management operations.
  • Operations on design artifacts that are listed in a specific category can be aggregated by selecting the Show Category filter (for example, all designs that are listed under the Pin category can be listed and checked out at once).
  • The Check in all checked out option allows designers to check in all of the checked-out files in the workspace at once.
    Note: For more information about check-ins, see Artifact check-ins.
  • In a VersionVault MultiSite environment, you can view the current mastered replica information and the check-out information across replicas.
  • You can start VersionVault native user interfaces, namely the Version Tree Browser and the History Browser for library, cell, and cellview.
  • Labels can be created and applied on library, cell, and cellview.
  • The Browse hierarchy submenu item in the Library Manager starts the Work Area Manager and shows all of the cellviews that is referenced from the selected cellview in a hierarchical manner.
  • You can recover items with a version as checkedout but removed in a dynamic view. To do this, use the Recover checkedout but removed files option from the VersionVault menu.
Note: To open a design, you must use the Library Manager.