topic Re: Link vault to excel and AutoCAD in Vault Forum

Link vault to excel and AutoCAD

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:50:23 GMT

My company is looking at using vault to manage our AutoCAD files and their dependencies. I am wondering if it is possible to link an excel file to Vault then have vault update the attributes in the drawing.

I know you can map attribute from AutoCAD to the vault. Then when you make a change to the user defined property, vault updates the attribute in AutoCAD.

So can you map an excel sheet, to the property in vault that is mapped to AutoCAD?

Re: Link vault to excel and AutoCAD

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:53:28 GMT

As far as I know, this is not possible. The properties for the XLS file would be mapped to the Vault Properties for that XLS, there is no way to map those properties to a DWG's Vault Properties.

Re: Link vault to excel and AutoCAD

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:00:18 GMT

Dang...

Thank you for the prompt response.

Is there a way to generate a report of the vault properties?

Re: Link vault to excel and AutoCAD

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:03:08 GMT

You can generate a report on folders or saved searches, which can be customized to include properties.