Vault 2014 API check in of Assembly and associated parts/drawings

[wayne.forrest]

HI all

trying to work out the best way to checkin all parts and drawings associated with a selected assembly file.

The checkout using the InteractiveAcquireFIleSettings method is great but it would be nice if there was a similar method for checking in files.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

thaks  Wayne

[GeorgK]

Hi Wayne,

I am looking for the same possibility. Does anyone find a solution?

Thanks

Georg

[Daniel.Du]

I did not find similar functions in vault 2014 API to do it with one step. You may have to find the associations with DocumentService and checkin them seperately. 

[minkd]

I highly recommend you have the end-user check-in via the appropriate Add-In (Inventor, AutoCAD, etc). Otherwise, the relationships you provide via the API will cause move/rename restrictions, the resulting version will have no BOM, no visualization will be created, etc. -Dave

[wayne.forrest]

Dave


thanks for the comment

do you mean use the standard out of the box vault interface from within Inventor rather than developing my own addin. I have included vault API calls from within a add-in I have developed, checked in an assembly, associated parts and drawings within a loop and see that the usedon/used by relationship is broken. Is there any way around this. I have used the GetLatestAssociated FilePathsByMasterID method to identify associated objects and the CheckinFile method for checking each object in.

regards

Wayne

[minkd]

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any Inventor Vault add-in interface that 3rd parties can use. This is a known problem that will hopefully be addressed in a future release. -Dave

[wayne.forrest]

Disappointed 😞

do you know if it is possible to call the internal inventor vault checkin command from a vb project. I have seen some discussions on calling inventor commands programmatically when the API does not provide a method. The only issue is when the command requires additional parameters i.e. from a dialogue box.

[wayne.forrest]

Yes you can using the

thisapplication.commandmanager.controldefinitions.item("LoginCmdIntName").Execute() or "LogoutCmdIntName" to logout.

You can then use the "VaultCheckInTop" command to check in the drawing and associated parts/assemblies.

Was wondering if there is an equivalent command that doesn't display the login or logout dialogue box

[GeorgK]

Is there any improvement in Vault 2015?