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How to access in Inventor the initial Vault dialog boxes?

dennis — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:45:53 GMT

I want to access via .NET C# the initial vault dialog and as well the Settings dialog. Can someone point me in the right direction. Is this a Vault customization or an Inventor Customization? And any code snippets would be helpful.

I attached a pic of the dialog boxes.

Re: How to access in Inventor the initial Vault dialog boxes?

Markus.Koechl — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:54:07 GMT

You can access the settings reading the xml file "C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Inventor 2020 Vault Addin\ApplicationPreferences.xml"

A found a code sample reading one particular setting, written in PowerShell:

function mReadGFN4S 
#	Reads the Inventor-Vault Addin Option: Generate File Numbers for Drawing / Presentations
#	used by XAML Checkbox Style + script ($global:mGFN4S.Value) 
{
	$mVltOptionFile = $env:APPDATA + '\Autodesk\Inventor 2017 Vault Addin\ApplicationPreferences.xml'
	if (Test-Path $mVltOptionFile) {
		#$dsDiag.Trace(">> Start reading Vault Addin Options...")
		$global:mAppXML = New-Object XML 
		$mAppXML.Load($mVltOptionFile)
		$mGeneral = $mAppXML.Categories.Category | Where-Object { $_.ID -eq "GeneralOptions" }
		$_Option = $mGeneral.Property | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "GFN4SpecialFiles" }
		#$dsDiag.Trace("... finished reading Vault Addin Options returning: $_Option <<")
		return $_Option.Value
	}
	#$dsDiag.Trace("...finished reading Vault AddIn Options with ERROR!")
}

Re: How to access in Inventor the initial Vault dialog boxes?

dennis — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:42:35 GMT

That will help...some. Specifically, I want to add my own settings to the Settings dialog to control some automation for Itemization. Also, I would like to access the list from the initial dialog.

Re: How to access in Inventor the initial Vault dialog boxes?

dennis — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:33:04 GMT

Appears that what I want to do cannot be done. Working out a different workflow.