Welcome to ARCHIBUS System Management Help

Welcome to ARCHIBUS System Management Help!

ARCHIBUS System Management Help contains everything needed for configuring and extending the ARCHIBUS Smart Client and ARCHIBUS Web Central according to the needs of your site.

The material in the ARCHIBUS System Management Help is divided by the skills that each different role needs to perform their deployment tasks:

Installers install the programs.
ARCHIBUS administrators personalize the interface, configure workflow rules, and establish application-level security.
System administrators configure authentication and manage new versions of ARCHIBUS.
Database administrators establish database-level security and update the schema after upgrading.
Database managers customize the schema and copy these changes between projects. If their customizations involve altering the structure of the database, they update the database with these structural changes.
Add-in managers make changes within the ARCHIBUS environment using the ARCHIBUS technologies examples, tools, and conventions. These add-ins can affect the user interface, such as changes made with the View Definition Wizard, or affect calculations and workflow are made using the Basic Rule Wizard or by hand-edited .java workflow rules.
System integrators integrate ARCHIBUS with other ERP systems, such as those that use the ARCHIBUS Connectors.
Software engineers create new “kit of parts” elements for use in ARCHIBUS views or extend the core functionality for use in ARCHIBUS workflow rules. Software engineering skills are not required for typical ARCHIBUS deployments.
Localization coordinators prepare to translate ARCHIBUS applications and the ARCHIBUS programs into other languages.

Accessing System Management Help

From the Web Central application:

On the Process Navigator in Web Central, move to the System Administration domain. For any role, right-click on the role and choose Help from the resulting pop-up menu. You will receive a topic specifically addressing the selected role. From here, you can choose Show Contents to move to any help topic in ARCHIBUS System Management Help.
Load ARCHIBUS Help from the Help command. Go to the Learning Path / System Manager topic. Scroll through the topic and choose a link that accesses a topic in ARCHIBUS System Management Help. From here, you can choose Show Contents to move to any help topic in ARCHIBUS System Management Help.

From the Smart Client application:

On the Process Navigator, move to the System Administration domain. For any role, right-click on the role and choose Help from the resulting pop-up menu. You will receive a topic specifically addressing the selected role. From here, you can choose Show Contents to move to any help topic in ARCHIBUS System Management Help.