topic Re: Change Inventor option from iLogic... (Inventor 2021) in Inventor Programming Forum

Change Inventor option from iLogic... (Inventor 2021)

gene.buckle — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:47:26 GMT

I need to change the Prompt option named:

"Changes have been made to some assembly components since the assembly was last saved" to "No", but I need to do so in iLogic. I've looked through the ThisApplication API reference and I've not found anything that even remotely looked like what I'm after.

Is this possible? If so, what's the property named?

Thanks!

Re: Change Inventor option from iLogic... (Inventor 2021)

WCrihfield — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:45:55 GMT

Hi @gene.buckle. I do not believe that is possible through the Inventor API yet. We can access and control the similar settings you see on the Save tab, but not the Prompts tab of the Application options yet. Why must it be done by iLogic instead of manually? If you have a dialog interrupting your code process then have you considered turning on (checking the CheckBox for) the 'Silent Operation' option within that iLogic rule editor window when editing that rule? That is the best way, because that setting will only effect that one rule, while it is running. There is also an Application level setting by the same name that could be set to True, but that setting is more dangerous to use, because is MUST be set back to False before your code ends, even if your code crashes (throws an exception) while running, or it may mess up your ability to interact with Inventor outside of that rule.

Re: Change Inventor option from iLogic... (Inventor 2021)

gene.buckle — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:24:36 GMT

Thanks for the reply Wesley.

Setting that prompt to No/Always is a work-around we found for the issue I posted about yesterday:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-programming-ilogic/saveas-fails-for-reasons-inventor-2021/td-p/12562516

Unless there's a mechanism available to discover exactly *why* the SaveAs() call failed, we're forced to work around the problem.

We've got well over 100 Inventor users on staff and getting them to make the change by hand could be problematic, so I was tasked with discovering a mechanism to make the change without user intervention.

Thanks!

Re: Change Inventor option from iLogic... (Inventor 2021)

WCrihfield — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:01:12 GMT

Hi @gene.buckle. The only other way that comes to mind is by attempting to edit the contents of the exported XML file, from when you export the application settings, then import those settings again. I have not tried that completely by code before though. I know how to export and import the application options to an from an XML file by code, but not how to edit the contents of that XML file by code, to change that one specific setting. That sounds like it would be really complicated, and would require knowing how to navigate and edit XML code content. I have done some simple XML navigation/editing by vb.net code, but not super experienced/fast with it.

Re: Change Inventor option from iLogic... (Inventor 2021)

gene.buckle — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:45:28 GMT

That would be a last-resort solution, unfortunately. We're hoping that Inventor 2024 has the Documents.Open() crash fixed as we'll be moving to that as soon as our Vault migration is complete.

Thanks!