Get Securityheader from Vault Login in AutoCAD

[ellmag]

I wonder if it is possible to get the securityheader from a Vault login in AutoCAD in the same way as in Inventor. In Inventor I add a reference to Connectivity.InventorAddin.EdmAddin.dll but I can' find a similiar reference for AutoCAD.  I have an AutoCAD add-in (written in .NET) that needs to fecth information from Autodesk Vault.

[Redmond.D · Accepted solution]

I believe there is another back-door for getting this information inside AutoCAD.  Like with the Inventor add-in, there is no official support for this technique.

If you use the following code from your add-in, you should be able to get the userId and ticket of the current Vault session.

if (VaultExplorerAppBase.Instance == null)

{

    throw new ApplicationException("Unable to get Vault connection");

}

VaultConnectionManager connectionMgr = VaultExplorerAppBase.Instance.VaultManager;

if (connectionMgr.Connection.IsSignedIn() == false)

{

    throw new ApplicationException("Vault connection doesn't exist.");

}

IWebServiceCredentials credentials = new UserIdTicketCredentials(connectionMgr.Connection.SecurityContext.RemoteHost,

  connectionMgr.Connection.SecurityContext.KnowledgeVault,

 connectionMgr.Connection.SecurityContext.UserID,

 connectionMgr.Connection.SecurityContext.Ticket);

It has dependency on following dlls (which are located in AutoCAD installation directory).  None of these DLLs are part of the supported Vault API.

Connectivity.Application.VaultBase.dll

Connectivity.Common.dll

Connectivity.Common.Vault.dll

Connectivity.Explorer.Framework.dll

Connectivity.Proxies.utils.dll

[Balaji_07]

Hi Doug,

        I need to add a job to Job Processor from AutoCAD (Eg: Publish a drawing file). I have configured jobs and it was working fine with Inventor. Is it possible to do the same with AutoCAD. 

       I have gone through your post "http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Vault-Customization/Get-Securityheader-from-Vault-Login-in-Au... Got no idea in acheiving my functionality.

       Can you provide some samples or reference documents to get vault instance from AutoCAD.

Thanks,

Balaji A

[Anonymous]

I would like to use the code from above but I get the folowing error message:

Error 1 'Connectivity.Common.Vault.VaultConnectionManager' does not contain a definition for 'connection' and no extension method 'connection' accepting a first argument of type ....

How can I solve this issue, or is there an other way to check/use the current connection from the user in AutoCAD?

[wayne.brill]

Hi,

For 2014 a different call needs to be made. I asked a colleague about this. Here is an excerpt of their reply:

>> >>

To get the connection the add-in is using, they can access the Connectivity.Application.VaultBase.ConnectionManager.Instance.Connection property. This will return the active connection that the Vault add-in is using at that time. If the add-in does not have a valid connection when this property is read, then I believe it will return null.

 << << 

I tested this out and made a blog post about it. (with an VB.NET AutoCAD project for download)

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2013/09/autocad-2014-vault-add-in-connection.html

Thanks,

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi Wayne,

Verry nice blog item.

I've edited the code to have a function that will return the connection or nothing instead.

Imports ADCFWV = Autodesk.DataManagement.Client.Framework.Vault
Module mod_LogIn
    Public Function GetMyVaultConnection() As ADCFWV.Currency.Connections.Connection
        Dim MyConnection = Connectivity.Application.VaultBase.ConnectionManager.Instance.Connection
        If Not MyConnection Is Nothing And MyConnection.IsConnected Then
            Return MyConnection
        Else
            Return Nothing
        End If
    End Function
End Module

 Regards

Peter

[rhesusminus]

I'm trying to do this with Vault 2016, but there seems to have been some changes in the API...

Anyone knows how to update this code?

[Balaji_07]

Hello Trond,

You can retrieve Vault connection in ACAD 2016 using the following code

Add reference to "Connectivity.Application.VaultBase" from AutoCAD installation folder.

 Autodesk.DataManagement.Client.Framework.Vault.Currency.Connections.Connection con = Connectivity.Application.VaultBase.ConnectionManager.Instance.Connection;

(code is same as Peter has posted, post more info on the error you receive)

Thanks,

Balaji A

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[rhesusminus]

Thank you. Works like a charm 🙂
Searched the Vault SDK help file, but didn't help much 🙂