Vault Basic Client interoperability with Vault Workgroup/professional Server

[david]

Can one Login to Vault Workgroup or professional server with a Vault Basic client?

Or do all clients need to match the respective server version?

If not it gets very expensive to upgrade all the Inventor workstations (clients) to Vault Workgroup or professional.

Anybody been sucessful in trying to log into a Vault Workgroup server with a Vault Basic Client/Inventor??

Regards

David 

[samuel.seah]

Hi David,

You cannot use a Vault Basic Client to login into the Workgroup or Professional Server. The Clients need to match the respective Server versions in order to login.

However for the Inventor Add-In, you can login into any Server version even though it is installed from the Vault Basic Client installer.

Regards,

Samuel

[david]

Thanks Samuel,

So to be clear, to explore manipulate (such as Rename and copy Design) files in a Vault Workgroup or Professional Server one needs the respective Vault Workgroup or Professional Client.

However to one can still brouse teh vualt for files and checkin/out from Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD  etcetera without having to install a Vault Workgroup or Professional Client, teh Vault Basic the Vault Add-in provided by vault basic install will do.

Regards

David

[samuel.seah · Accepted solution]

Yes, the Vault Clients require the different versions of Clients in order to use the version specific features and connect to the respective Vault Servers.

Whereas for the CAD Vault Add-Ins, regardless from which Vault Client version it is installed from, it will be able to connect to all the different versions of Vault Servers. But the version specific features will be enabled/disabled depending on the version of Vault Server that it is connected to.

Regards,

Samuel

[minkd · Accepted solution]

FYI - when the Inventor Vault add-in signs-in to a higher tier (Vault Workgroup or Vault Professional) ADMS, it consumes a license of that tier. So you still need Vault licenses for the CAD users, even if they don't have, or aren't using higher tier thick client (Vault Explorer).

-Dave