topic Re: System Properties in Vault Forum

Re: System Properties

saainsworth — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:18:52 GMT

I'm currently working on setting up a 3D pdf template. I would like to know what vault version the PDF was created from by putting that information in the title block. I would like to map version number to a custom property that can be displayed on the PDF. Ideally the property would follow the indexing of version numbers such that when I check out a file it is updated.

I realize this is what Revisions are for, however I still think we will need better resolution (version number) as anyone can republish the PDF from the model.

Re: System Properties

iancross — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:12:12 GMT

I think this should be possible but with the help of 3rd party applications, you will need to get into the API to extract the version number, i use coolOrange powerJobs to pull out all sorts of info and put it on the titleblock

if you have a 3rd party add on to your job processor maybe a better question asked in the customisation forum

i have not tested but i would presume along the lines of once you have reference the file, set a variable to the value of the version

$TBVersion = $file.'version'

Then map that variable value to a UDP!
Update-VaultFile -File $file.'Full Path' -Properties @{'TBVersion' = $TBVersion}

Cheers

Re: System Properties

saainsworth — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:08:19 GMT

Thanks for the tip. I will investigate. I wish Vault had a native logic tool like iLogic in Inventor.