“All you Windchill customers already understand the new names for things in Windchill and Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 – but I don’t – all I know is what it is called in Pro/INTRALINK 3.x – where can I go to find what all these Windchill terms mean?”

This was one of the questions that caught my attention at the winter North American PTC/USER technical committee meetings in mid-January hosted at our corporate office in Needham, Massachusetts.

The truth is most of the Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 terminology is the same as the Pro/INTRALINK 3.x terminology - because 8.0 offers nearly all the 3.x capabilities – but some capabilities in Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 are new, have different names, or have subtly different behaviors.

So where can you find a terminology Pro/INTRALINK 3.x to Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 “Rosetta stone” or what the new terminology introduced in Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 means? Look in the back of the Getting Started with Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 Guide and you’ll find

· The Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 Terminology table in the appendix

o It lists and describes terminology differences between Pro/INTRALINK 3.x and Pro/INTRALINK 8.0.

· The Glossary

o It provides definitions of new terminology that is introduced in Pro/INTRALINK 8.0.

Here is a sample of what you’ll find in the Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 Terminology appendix:

Here are a few sample definitions from The Glossary:

Product

A product is typically thought of as the physical item manufactured and sold

to customers. Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 expands the concept of a product to

include the environment in which users collaborate to develop that end item.

This environment is known as the product context.

Library

A library provides a place for storing and providing

information, such as documents and parts.

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You can find the complete Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 Terminology table and definitions of the terminology that is introduced in Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 in the Getting Started with Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 Guide.