Global Library Explorer
The Global Library Explorer is a special version of Asta Powerproject's Library Explorer that you use to manage global libraries. Global libraries are calendars, codes, progress periods, quality checks and resources that can be stored in a global library file in Asta Vision and used in any number of individual projects, saving you from having to set up the same libraries in your individual projects multiple times.
Types of library object that are available in the global library file
If you configure Asta Vision to use global libraries, you can specify - in Asta Vision - which types of library object should be included in the global library file. The following types of object can be included:
- Calendars.
- Code libraries.
- Progress periods.
- Quality checks.
- Permanent resources.
- Consumable resources.
Calendars, permanent resources and consumable resources depend on other library objects, so if you include any of these library object types, other objects are included automatically in the global library file:
If you include calendars
If calendars are included in the global library file, the following library object types are also included:
- Exceptions.
- Work patterns.
If you include permanent resources
If you include permanent resources in the global library file, the following library object types are also included:
- Calendars - which means that exceptions and work patterns are also included.
- Code library entries.
- Cost and income rates.
- Cost centres.
- Currency units.
- Milestone appearances.
- Resource curves.
- Standard work.
- Time units.
- Work units.
If you include consumable resources
If you include consumable resources in the global library file, the following library object types are also included:
- Calendars - which means that exceptions and work patterns are also included.
- Code library entries.
- Cost centres.
- Currency units.
- Milestone appearances.
- Resource curves.
- Time units.
You use the Global Library Explorer in the same way that you use the standard Library Explorer - you can create, edit and delete library objects, and amend the hierarchies of library objects.
Once you have finished editing the global library file in the Global Library Explorer, you should check it in, using the Check-In control, in the Vision group, on the Home tab of the Ribbon. Any changes you have made to the global library file are checked in and will be available in projects when they are checked out.