Right now we are using the current ECO Status State Workflow that comes with Autodesk Vault Professional 2012. We are getting ready to install Autodesk Vault Professional 2014 and would like to customize it with new ECO Status States to improve our current workflow. Currently we are using the standard out of the box States which include Create, Open, Work, Review, Approved & Closed States but would like to customize it to have a Create, Engineer Validation, Open, Work, Internal Review, Engineer Review, Lead Engineer Review, Approved & Closed State. Is this possible and if so can you give me a step by step on creating new ECO Status States in Autodesk Vault Professional 2014.
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Currently there are no customizeable ECO workflows in Vault Professional. I wish that were the case. I believe this has been proposed in the Vault Idea Station ( maybe even by me :)) Right now you have two choices: Standard and with Check State.
Chris Benner
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I'm afraid that in Items, you do not have that flexibility either. There are (4) Lifecycles in Items. Only 4. You can change the Display name of them, and that's about it. There is very little you can do with Item lifecycles other than set WHEN the revision gets bumped. Needless to say there is still room for improvement in the ECO world.
Chris Benner
Inventor Tube & Pipe, Vault Professional
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Going With The Flow with Inventor Tube and Pipe | Increasing The Volume with Inventor Tube and Pipe | Power of the Autodesk Community | Getting to Know You | Inventor Styles & Standards |Managing Properties with Vault Professional | Vault Configuration | Vault - What is it & Why Do I Need It? | A Little Less Talk - Tube & Pipe Demo | Change Orders & Revisions - Vault, Inventor & AutoCAD | Authoring & Publishing Custom Content