AutoCAD Electrical, Inventor, Vault, and working folders.

[pcrawley]

With Inventor and Vault in a multi-user environment, best-practice says that the working-folder should be somewhere unique to each user.  Since there are lots of users, it makes sense to enforce the working folder at an admin' level.

With AutoCAD Electrical and Vault in a multi-user environment, the only way to work is with a shared working folder.  Again, with lots of users, it makes sense to set this shared working folder at an admin' level.

In a multi-user environment running Vault and Product Design Suite, a group of users wants to run Inventor and AutoCAD Electrical for the same project.  How the heck is this supposed to work?

[mikel_martin]

You can override the working folder location for a given folder in the Vault.

I would create a high level folder for all AcadE data and set that to a shared location to keep things simple.

If you are using Vault workgroup (or Pro) you can create a link in the main Project to the Acad E project folder for easier navigation.

[cbenner]

This may not be "best practices", but we have one working folder for everything and it is our shared drive.  Of course, there are only 2 of us so it's not a big stretch.

[pcrawley]

These are good suggestions - but... (there's alwys one of those).

In a multi-user environment, it's also best practice (or at least "good practice") to enforce the working folder - especially where you have Inventor users of different abilities.

Is there a way to override this setting just for Electrical projects, or do we have to scrap the "Enforce working folder" setting?

I'm hoping the answer will be yes because we currently use %userprofile%\VaultWork as the enforced working folder because there are servral operators who "hot desk".  Scrapping this type of folder enforcement will throw things back nito the dark old age of chaotic workspaces.