topic Re: Vault project explorer addon in Vault Customization Forum

Vault project explorer addon

dominik.gleinser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:00:51 GMT

Hello developer team,

regarding Autodesk Vault Professional and the usage of the project explorer in Vault Client I've to write a specification for an addon in a customer's environment.

My question to you:

Is there a possibility to edit the project explorer (folder structure on the left side) via API?

A customer wants to fade over the number (DisplayName) of folders with the title of the folder. We do not want to name the folders with the title because of the lenght of the value and special characters in the value of the title. Is the project explorer opened for API or blocked?

Picture for illustration:

Thanks and best regards!

Dominik

Re: Vault project explorer addon

Markus.Koechl — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:49:46 GMT

Do I understand your requirement right rephrasing it: As a user, I liked hoovering the Vault Client folder tree while displaying a tooltip showing the folder's title property value?

Re: Vault project explorer addon

dominik.gleinser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:04:28 GMT

Hallo Markus,

not quite...it should be not only a tooltip (box), it should be a overwritten displayname in the folder tree like in Inventor.

The name of the folder should remain!

Re: Vault project explorer addon

dominik.gleinser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:21:42 GMT

Here a short video how it works in Inventor...maybe i can describe it this way:

https://autode.sk/3rnbUpm

Re: Vault project explorer addon

Markus.Koechl — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:04:52 GMT

Hi Dominik, I don't believe that you can do this in the existing browser. However, reviewing the VDF I am pretty sure that you can implement your custom VaultBrowserCtrl showing the custom name at runtime. The SDK samples include browser control implementations. I would not have additional samples in case you asked ;).

Re: Vault project explorer addon

dominik.gleinser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:07:12 GMT

Hi Markus, thanks for your reply! That's enough - I only want to know if a customization with VDF is possible!

I'll try to get a addon for our customer!

Thank you!!