Customer Selection
The Customer Selection is used to change the context of the metadata that can be managed in the BimlFlex App. A Customer allows the creation of multiple separate areas that can have their own designs. A Customer can have one or more Versions.
Additional information on the Customer feature is available in the Customer Concept Overview.
New Customer Creation
The Customer is the top-level grouping of metadata in the BimlFlex database. A customer represents an independent logical area for which the metadata is separated from other customers.
Customers can be used to identify different companies, teams or initiatives. Any metadata defined for a specific customer can not be used by other customers in BimlFlex.
A customer can contain multiple Versions to manage changes in metadata over time, but can also be used for a more fine-grained approach to separate metadata. For example, if you want to organize BimlFlex to use a single customer to represent the company, versions can be defined to represent separate teams or initiatives.
A customer can have multiple versions of metadata. An initial version is created for a new customer.
Use the New Customer Button in the BimlFlex App to add the customer to the BimlFlex database.
The customer can also be created through:
- BimlStudio > BimlFlex Ribbon > Open Bundle > New Customer
- BimlFlex Excel Add-in > BimlFlex Ribbon > Metadata Connection pane > New Customer