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# 1 Introduction to Recipe & Material Workspace Administration

Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) introduces Recipe & Material Workspace (Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals ) with PLM Release 9.3.1.

## 1.1 Introducing Recipe & Material Workspace

The Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals solution enables biotechnology and pharmaceutical development companies to create products as well as improve business productivity, visibility, scientific outcomes, and proactive compliance during the product development lifecycle.

## 1.2 Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals Administrator Nodes for Configuration

The list below summarizes the functions that can be configured in each administrative node of Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals . Most of the nodes are accessed in the Tools & Settings dropdown menu. People and Organizations are accessed using the Search dropdown menu.

### 1.2.1 System Tools

The System Tools node lets you manage Data Audit Trails. Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals provides audit trails on key functions to conform to regulatory requirements. For example, if anyone changes an attribute for a piece of equipment, that change is logged and maintained in an Audit Trail File. This function is detailed in System Tools.

### 1.2.2 Settings

The Settings node includes Default Preferences, Image, and Image Map. These functions are detailed in Settings.

### 1.2.3 Alerts/Workflows

This section describes the Alerts/Workflows node.

#### 1.2.3.1 Alerts

The Alerts/Workflows node lets you provide alerts for the user. For example, you provide permissions for a user to use an alert for a group. When the user wants to send out an alert to all members of that group, it is sent to the group, not to each individual member. These functions are detailed in Alerts.

#### 1.2.3.2 Workflows

Besides alerts, the Alerts/Workflows node also lets you automate manual processes into Workflows, Workflow States, and Workflow State Actions.

These functions are detailed in Workflows.

### 1.2.4 Administration

The Administration node lets you manage Library (that is, Records), Internal ID, Object Lock, Cache, and Service. These functions are detailed in Administration.

### 1.2.5 Object Modeling

The Object Modeling node helps you manage those data objects that are required by the database. You can create new Categories (also known as Business Objects or Tables), Attributes, Views, Subviews, Enumerated Valid Values, Units Of Measure (UOM), UOM Groups, and UOM Conversions. These functions are detailed in Object Modeling. Also see Keywords used by Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals System.

### 1.2.6 Integration

The Integration node lets you manage Application, Web Service, and Test functions. These functions are detailed in Integration.

The Web service integrated framework invokes external Web services and plugged-in custom-built Web services. The integration is XML-based. All communication between the client and the external application is in XML format.

### 1.2.7 People

The Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals administrator accesses People via the Search field (using the dropdown arrow). The "People" selection lets you choose User, User Group, Contact, and Role. These functions are detailed in People.

### 1.2.8 Organizations

The Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals administrator accesses Organizations via the Search field (using the dropdown arrow). The "Organizations" selection lets you choose Company, Site, Location, Department, and Site Qualification. These functions are detailed in Organizations.

## 1.3 General Administration and Configuration Files

Default settings and utility services for Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals , and some troubleshooting procedures, are detailed in General Administration.

Configuration information of the Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals application, such as authentication type, audit trail enabling/disabling, the list of resource files and so on, is stored in a set of configuration files, which are detailed in Configuration Files.

Reserved keywords are detailed in Keywords.

## 1.4 What's New

The following sections describe new features as they are introduced in a particular release.

### 1.4.1 New Features in Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals Material Management in 9.3.3

No new administrator features were introduced in Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals Release 9.3.3.

### 1.4.2 New Features in Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals Material Management in 9.3.1.2

No new administrator features were introduced in Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals Release 9.3.1.2.

### 1.4.3 New Features in Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals Administrator Nodes for 9.3.1.1

New administrator features in Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals Release 9.3.1.1 include the following:

- Multiple language support is now available for Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals . See Multiple Language Support in Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals .

- Labels, including but not limited to EVV values and view names, can be localized. All labels that can be localized can also be customized or overridden. See Localizing EVV Value and Customizing and Localizing Labels for details.

- There are licensing tasks that must be completed in Agile PLM before a user is able to see the link to switch to Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals . For more information about this, see Administrator Access to and from Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals .

- Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals users cannot set the preferences of Language, Date Format, or Time Zone preferences from the Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals user preferences option. The menu items for managing Locale and Number Format have been removed. All of these settings are inherited from the Agile PLM side.

- You can no longer explicitly lock or unlock user-locked objects. You can, however, unlock objects that are currently being edited that have been locked by Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals . See Unlocking Objects Currently Being Modified.

- The locking grid (where the user can freeze display of a few columns and scroll to see the data in the other columns) has been removed.

- The user with login 'administrator' has been removed from Recipe Management for Pharmaceuticals , to meet the default settings of Agile PLM.