Allow administrators to manually attach DWF files as Visualization Attachments to Inventor and AutoCAD files. Quite frankly, I'm tired of dealing with the "Unknown error during publish" error... I've been dealing with it since Vault 2006 (maybe even earlier but I can't remember). It is apparently still an issue with the latest Vault version.
The current solution/workaround is: "Check the file out and then back in. It'll create a new visualization attachment.", except it doesn't 99% of the time... This solution/workaround also doesn't worry about the potentially hundreds, if not thousands, of other related files this "easy fix" causes to require updating since the assembly or drawing is no longer pointing at the correct version of the the child file. Yay.
So how about this Autodesk? Instead of screwing with my already Vaulted released file(s), why can't I simply click an "Add Visualization File" button that will let me set a manually created DWF file of an IPT, IAM, or DWG file as the file's Visualization Attachment for any file afflicted with the "Unknown error during Publish" bug?
This is a simple, easy fix that doesn't mess with the original, and usually unfixable, files.
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