Providing enhanced functionality in an interactive electronic technical manual

An apparatus for performing at least one of loading a plurality of articles onto and into an object comprising a plurality of positions at which the plurality of articles can be loaded via an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access via an IETM viewer to technical documentation for an item, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:

• provide a digital model of the object for display via the IETM viewer executing on a user computing entity being used by a user, the digital model comprising the plurality of positions as selectable;
• receive input of selection of one or more of the plurality of positions, wherein the selection of the one or more of the plurality of positions is performed by the user via the IETM viewer;
• responsive to receiving the input of the selection of the one or more of the plurality of positions, for each selected position:
• provide a list of articles that can be loaded at the selected position to be displayed on the window in which each of the articles in the list of articles is selectable;
• and
• receive input of selection of one or more articles from the list of articles, wherein the selection of the one or more articles is performed by the user via the IETM viewer;
• responsive to receiving the input of the selection of the one or more articles, record the one or more articles for the selected position, wherein the one or more articles are found in the plurality of articles;
• receive input of an indication to generate a digital workflow for at least one of loading the plurality of articles onto and into the object, the indication being provided by the user via the IETM viewer;
• and
• responsive to receiving the indication to generate the digital workflow:
• generate the digital workflow based on the one or more articles selected by the user from the list of articles displayed for each selected position;
• and
• provide the digital workflow for display via the IETM viewer, wherein the digital workflow comprises a plurality of procedures to be performed to at least one of load the plurality of articles onto and into the object, and each of the plurality of procedures comprises a plurality of operations to be performed to at least one of load an article in the plurality of articles onto and into the object at one of the selected positions.

A non-transitory computer storage medium comprising instructions for performing at least one of loading a plurality of articles onto and into an object comprising a plurality of positions at which the plurality of articles can be loaded via an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access via an IETM viewer to technical documentation for an item, the instructions being configured to cause one or more processors to at least perform operations configured to:

• provide a digital model of the object for display via the IETM viewer executing on a user computing entity being used by a user, the digital model comprising the plurality of positions as selectable;
• receive input of selection of one or more of the plurality of positions, wherein the selection of the one or more of the plurality of positions is performed by the user via the IETM viewer;
• responsive to receiving the input of the selection of the one or more of the plurality of positions, for each selected position:
• provide a list of articles that can be loaded at the selected position to be displayed on the window in which each of the articles in the list of articles is selectable;
• and
• receive input of selection of one or more articles from the list of articles, wherein the selection of the one or more articles is performed by the user via the IETM viewer;
• responsive to receiving the input of the selection of the one or more articles, record the one or more articles for the selected position, wherein the one or more articles are found in the plurality of articles;
• receive input of an indication to generate a digital workflow for at least one of loading the plurality of articles onto and into the object, the indication being provided by the user via the IETM viewer;
• and
• responsive to receiving the indication to generate the digital workflow:
• generate the digital workflow based on the one or more articles selected by the user from the list of articles displayed for each selected position;
• and
• provide the digital workflow for display via the IETM viewer, wherein the digital workflow comprises a plurality of procedures to be performed to at least one of load the plurality of articles onto and into the object, and each of the plurality of procedures comprises a plurality of operations to be performed to at least one of load an article in the plurality of articles onto and into the object at one of the selected positions.