Vault Feature Request: When you obsolete an item it should obsolete all previous revisions, released or not.
Obsolete Items are still viewable in Web Client because some previous revisions are released
Ref: previous Autodesk case 09411810 and new Autodesk case 09515277
Also see attached Word doc with relevant context as "Obsolete Item scenario - public.doc"
The customer has the advised workflow and has asked for this feature request case be opened with Autodesk to obsolete all previous revisions, released or not.
The reasoning is so that Web Client users cannot access parts in error that are no longer in production.
The business case for this company involves 35 seats of Vault Pro 2014 and several dozen more Vault Web Client users at multiple sites routinely relying upon the accuracy of parts that are accessible as 'in production'.
They do not want obsolete parts being requisitioned or ordered as parts of extensive bills of material, for example.
They understand that this feature request will likely not be made available in Vault 2014. They have the workflow workaround in place as an alternative as detailed in the attached Obsolete Item scenario - public.doc