Apply assignment rules to ALL files in vault

[Anonymous]

Hi,

We have just upgraded to Vault Pro 2013 and need to give categories to all our files in vault and then also release ALL files which are not checked out.

Is there a way we can carry out this task in one hit on ALL files instead of selecting a number of files from a folder and setting them to released and then moving onto the next files and folders.

Thanks,

Wayne

[bjzhangzx]

Just search for *.* or whatever you need then do whatever you want on the results.

[xavier_dumont1]

Perform some test before doing that on a production environment.

Because, if you have a very big amount of files to revise + release, it's impossible to do that in on operation (timeout, ram, etc...).

And be careful, if you do that in multiple operation. Why?

Consider this assembly after applying categories:

FileName - Inventor Rev Number - Vault Rev Number - State

Assembly.iam - B - A - WIP

Part A.ipt - B - A - WIP

Part B.ipt - B - A - WIP

If you split the action in two step because of the large amount of files:

First step:

1) Revise Part A.ipt and Part B.ipt regarding Inventor Rev Number

2) Release Part A.ipt and Part B.ipt.

Second step:

1) Revise Assembly.iam regarding Inventor Rev Number

2) Try to release Assembly.iam : You will see triangle on Part A.ipt and Part B.ipt. Why? Because Vault consider the Assembly is out-of-date because there are new revision of the children.

Then what you need to do? Check-out, check-in the Assembly.iam.

I'm trying to solve this through Vault API to perform those step automatically. Ask your reseller if it can help you.

In my case I have to do that on more than 100'000 files ! Autodesk planned to improve this but for 2013 there is no magic solution.