AcquireFilesSettings - UpdateReferences parameter

[psaarloos]

Hi,

Can anybody tell what could be a situation where I want to set the 'updatereferences' parameter in the AqcuireFilesSettings constructor to false? In other words: shouldn't this parameter always be true? Are there any cases you can think of where this parameter should be set to true?

Regards,

Pim

[wayne.brill]

Hi Pim,

A colleague in Vault Engineering has this response.

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The documentation should probably explain what ‘false’ means.  If 'updatereferences' is false, the references will not be updated at all.  There is no way to update references before the download.

Anyway, an update of references is a modification of the file.  If you want to get the exact bytes, set this to false. 
If you know that file references can’t be resolved, then you get better performance by setting this to false.  For example, downloading Inventor files to somewhere outside the project path.

I believe there are some internal reasons for having that flag in places.  For example, when downloading from the Inventor plug-in, the plug-in may resolve references differently.

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I believe this explains it.

Thanks,

Wayne