File Status Icon Question

[karthur1]

I'm trying to understand what the red icon with the check in it is telling me. The help says that it usually means that I "started with a version for (from?) vault that was older than the latest version, and then checked it out to promote it to the latest".
I think this is saying that I got a previous version from vault and then checked it out.

Am I reading this correctly? AFAIK, I have never done this (yet), but I still have these icons in my browser. I don't understand how I could NOT have the latest version if I have the file checked out to me.

Thanks,
Kirk
Vault 5, Inv 10.

[Anonymous]

Kirk,

Are you seeing this icon inside Inventor or inside Vault? Also, are you the
only one that is working on these particular parts or assemblies? I am
speculating that what you have in your working folder is out of date.
Either by thinking you are in the working folder when you are not (I do that
a lot) or someone has checked out the file and checked it back in prior to
you checking the file out again.

Let me know if I am off here 🙂

Thanks,
Jim


wrote in message news:5171448@discussion.autodesk.com...
I'm trying to understand what the red icon with the check in it is telling
me. The help says that it usually means that I "started with a version for
(from?) vault that was older than the latest version, and then checked it
out to promote it to the latest".
I think this is saying that I got a previous version from vault and then
checked it out.

Am I reading this correctly? AFAIK, I have never done this (yet), but I
still have these icons in my browser. I don't understand how I coul
d NOT have the latest version if I have the file checked out to me.

Thanks,
Kirk
Vault 5, Inv 10.

[karthur1]

I am seeing the same thing in both. There are others working on the files also. I am sure what I have in my workspace is out of date because I can right click and chose "Show History". There will be a version checked in by another user (see reply below for a screen shot).

I can understand how the file can be out of date, but I don't understand how it can be checked out by me AND be out of date.

[karthur1]

Here is a screen shot of the "Show History" window.

[Anonymous]

Question-
how it can be checked out by me AND be out of date?

Answer -
if during check-out the option not to get latest copy is selected.
or
file is checked out to folder other than working folder

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Ajay Choudhary
Software Engineer
Autodesk Inc.



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I am seeing the same thing in both. There are others working on the files
also. I am sure what I have in my workspace is out of date because I can
right click and chose "Show History". There will be a version checked in by
another user (see reply below for a screen shot).

I can understand how the file can be out of date, but I don't understand how
it can be checked out by me AND be out of date.

[gbosden]

When you checkout a file, vault in its wisdom loads the local verson and not the latest verson from vault.
You need to make sure you use get latest version
ps I have found that "get latest version" is not reliable and sometimes have to resort to deleting the local version before using "get lastest version"
NB
How to corrupt vault files
1 Have files on local machine not checked out (version 1)
2 Another user checks out one of these files makes changes and checks in (version 2)
3 You check out the changed file make no changes then check in
4 You have just overwrite the wanted file version 2 with the outdated file version 1
5 This can happen if you check out an assembly using the default setting of "all children" and becomes very hard to pick the problem
( BRING BACK SEMI ISOLATED )

[karthur1]

In step 3, when you check out the file, does vault not tell you that the local version "is OLDER than the latest version"?

I have my prompts set to ALWAYS get the latest, thus avoiding overwriting the latest version.

If you are using Vault 5, and not seeing this prompt, look at File>Vault>Options and see it this prompts resonse is set to "No to All".