Title of dwg is not appearing in the Vault

[nbradbury]

I have noticed that some of my drawings in the Vault do not display the Title information in Vault Explorer. The ipt that the drawing was created from shows the Title. The only way to get the Title so show up is to check both files out make some change to the title in the part and save the part. I then have to open the drawing and let it update and save it. I then have to go back to the part file and change the Title back to what I want and save the file. I then go back to the drawing and save it. Finally I check both files back in.

This does not only happen to new parts and drawings. I have several drawings that had the Title in Vault explorer and then I check them out to make a change and when I checked them back in the Title was gone. Does anyone know what is going on?

Best Regards,
Nathan

[Anonymous]

Hello Nathan,

You can try these steps:
1. Go to youre server machine. open commandline, execute "iisreset"
2. Log in Server Console as administrator execute Re-index operation.
3. Log in client to check the Title property of DWG files.works or not.

Hope this helps. 🙂

Best Regards,
Rohn

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I have noticed that some of my drawings in the Vault do not display the
Title information in Vault Explorer. The ipt that the drawing was created
from shows the Title. The only way to get the Title so show up is to check
both files out make some change to the title in the part and save the part.
I then have to open the drawing and let it update and save it. I then have
to go back to the part file and change the Title back to what I want and
save the file. I then go back to the drawing and save it. Finally I check
both files back in.

This does not only happen to new parts and drawings. I have several
drawings that had the Title in Vault explorer and then I check them out to
make a change and when I checked them back in the Title was gone. Does
anyone know what is going on?

Best Regards,
Nathan

[Anonymous]

One thing to check on these drawings is whether or not the title block is
inheriting the title from the model. If that's the case the title will show
in the title block but not the iProperty and so it won't show in the vault.

[nbradbury]

I tried what Rohn had suggested and some of the drawings now show the title in the Vault but I still have several that do not.

The drawings do get the title from the part file. I don't type in any title block information at the drawing level. But this is the case for all of my drawings. And 95% of my drawings do show the title in the Vault.

Our IT manager is going to do some work on the Vault over the weekend in an effort to resolve the problem. Hopefully he can find the problem. Thanks for the input.

Regards,
Nathan

[Anonymous]

Keep in mind there are 2 ways to get the iProps from the model into your
title block:

1. Copy Model Properties (via the document settings in your template file).
This will copy the model properties to the iProperties of the drawing. This
is a one shot deal and not linked. They will show in vault but won't change
if the model changes and only come in if a view is placed before the drawing
is saved.

2. Get the model properties (via the text editor when designing the title
block). These will be linked and always update but will not show in the
drawings iProperties and so will not show in vault.

[nbradbury]

The description of the two methods you gave suggest there is no good way to have your title block information update automatically AND show up in the Vault.

I have a template set up that has a couple of title blocks that I created. I used the text editor to set the title blocks up to pull the information into the title block from the part file. This sounds like method 2 from your description. This is how all of my drawings are. But you mentioned that using this method the title would not show in the Vault. Almost all of my drawings have the title showing in the Vault. Am I doing something different from what you are describing?

Regards,
Nathan

[Anonymous]

You may have both set. In this case the title block will always update but
the iProperty, which is what vault shows will not update. The title block
and the iProps of the drawing could have 2 different values. Here you see
the result. The top line of the description is pulled from the drawing
iProps while the lower is linked to the model props. I don't know why you
can't link model properties to drawing properties.

[karthur1]

If you have the properties set to be inherited, then when you create an idw of a part (or iam), the iproperty title field of the idw will be populated with whatever is in the part (or iam.)

If there is no value in the title field, then nothing will be written to the idw title property.

If you change the title in the ipt, the idw title will NOT automatically update, you will have to change it.

In the "Help" go to the index tab, type in "properties". Look down the list and choose "in drawings".

[nbradbury]

OK, how do I set this up so my properties always update and always show in the Vault. I don't know where all the tools are to make these changes so any informatoins as to locations of switches and options to accomplish what I need would be very helpfull. Thanks.

Best Regards,
Nathan

[karthur1]

There is no way that I know of to make them update (see my post above).

You can change your idw template to copy the properties. In your idw, go to Tools>Document settings, Click on the "Drawing" tab, then check the box "Copy Model Properties", then click the "Properties" button to the right. Here you can choose what properties you want to copy.

[Anonymous]

As far as I know there is no way. Andrew works on an island.