Reference Repair Utility Enhancements

[mthomas]

If you've attempted to use the Refrence Repair Utility you'll quickly become frustrated it could really use some enhancements

Scanning

• In the settings I should be able to browse and select the Inventor Project File. The slash is opposite "/" to all other pathing in the settings and caused me some grief the first time I used this
• I shouldn't have to close the utility when its done processing a folder. I should be able to pick a new folder and continue
• I should be able to select multiple folders to process
• It would be nice to be able to browse for folders to process
• It can error and stop. As a script / batch processing utility it should just log the error and continue. There should be 0-interaction by the user until it is done
• When it errors, it says to look at the log, but when you look at the log there is absolutely nothing about the error or what caused it to stop

Importing Fixes

• I would assume that most people run the scan not on the server, apply the changes to the .xml not on the server, but then need to go to the server to import the fixes. It would be nice to be able to "push" the fixes from the same system used to scan and fix.
• I use the command line to import the fixes but then need to use the ADMS Console logs to see any errors.... huh? The import needs to have its own GUI that writes its own log / error report

[gilsdorf_e]

I'm just frustrated about ARRU myself.

I would add two aspects:

1. Progress should be regularly flushed to XML. If the tool crashes after several days of processing large data amounts, everything is lost upon a crash, as the XML is written at the very end. It should also be possible to resume after an error, if the results are flushed to disks regularly.
2. Batch mode capabilities should be added. Right now, if I want to scan the whole Vault, I have the choice to scan hundreds of folders manually or scan very large folders including subfolders, which takes days (running into above mentioned problems). If the tool could be run from command line, that would be easily scriptable. Now I could only mess around with the GUI with the likes of AutoIt, which is not really stable.

Best regards

Erik

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