eSpline's Avenue Model Viewer is one of a very few software tools that document a SAP VC or IPC product model. It was created as a part of the eSpline Managing VC & IPC initiative so that there is a easy to use and easy to read documentation of an SAP Variant Configurator or Internet Pricing Configurator product model
"OMG - Look at this" said one of the eSpline Portal customers when they saw their first VC Model displayed in a pdf
So what is Avenue Model Viewer? eSpline extracts SAP VC or IPC product model rule patterns and Bills of Material from the SAP Kb and makes that information available for further use. One of those uses is to document the product model.
What you see is a reduced view of the first page of a SAP Variant Configurator model. This documents one model version. The first page header tells you the model name, knowledgebase ID, date extracted, system name, client, who extracted the model, and what is the XML version number. You have the option to add your logo at the top.
Although the version to the left is not an html display, Avenue Model Viewer creates an html format with "Quick Links" to Classes, Characteristics, Materials, Dependencies and Variant Functions. There is also an option to create a pdf file with active links and a Table of Contents that is used as an archive, if you wish.
The Model Viewer for a VC or IPC model shows the entire model with all Classes, Characteristics, Materials [if selected for extraction], Dependencies, Tables and Variant Functions. Optional views include HTML or pdf formats with active links to navigate within the document.
After seeing eSpline's Managing VC software demonstrated at the CWG Conference, a conference attendee said: "It took me two days to find a change that one of my modelers said he didn't make. It took Managing VC less than two minutes! "
