I am relatively new to the Vault experience. At my previous job, I became pretty savy at building macros for excel to automate processes and find certain bits of information within report spreadsheets. Those macros allowed me to be extremely efficient and decisive with my work (less time doing, more time evaluating and making objective decisions).
At my new job, one of my responsibilities is to check drawings. The process usually consists of the following:
1. Review the drawing via Vault's preview display.
2. If the drawing is fine, check-out the drawing.
3. Open the drawing via Inventor and choose the project file.
4. Open iProperties within Inventor, then initial/date the drawing within the status tab.
5. Save and check-in the drawing.
6. Close and repeat.
Not going to complain if this is the only way to do it, but if it possible to develop a macro to automate this process, please point me in the direction. If the macro could by-pass all this steps and allow me to focus my attention on checking the drawings themselves rather than clicking through pop-ups, I would be extremely happy (as well as a few co-workers who have to do the same process).
Please let me know of better ways to approach this process, it would be much appreciated.
Thomas
There are many ways this could be done with Vault depending on the which teir of the product you are using.
Mikel,
I see where you can "edit properties" and then can expose any property lines you want, but there is not one called "checked by" with a date, which is essentially the one I would need. How could I go about getting that property exposed in Vault for editing?
Thomas
If no property exists in the Vault you need to go to the Administration dialog > File tab.
Create a property and add a mapping to the iproperty.