MOVE PUBLISHED CONTENT CENTER PART TO ANOTHER FOLDER

[plausa.us]

When I published a part to my contents center, for whatever reason I could only choose the top folder to publish it to, not the subfolder or categories below.  See below

I wanted to have the DIN 939 located in the Fasteners->Bolts->Studs.

I've tried to drop and drag not allowed, I tried from Family Properties under Parameters Mapping Tab, Category: has Fasteners so I attempted to edit that text to Fasteners->Bolts->Studs but I can't add or edit anything there.

I had already changed my project to Read-Write.

Does anyone know how to relocate a published part?

Thank you for your help.

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

Its called start all over..  Once you publish a part to a location in content center you are unable to move it.   If you want to publish to a sub-category you have to first copy that structure over to your read-write library as well.    See this article for more detail:

https://www.synergis.com/2014/02/28/working-with-inventor-content-center-part-1-of-3/

https://www.synergis.com/2014/03/17/working-with-autodesk-inventor-content-center-part-2-of-3/

https://www.synergis.com/2014/03/28/working-with-autodesk-inventor-content-center-part-3-of-3/

[plausa.us]

Thank you Mark, thankfully this was a new piece, so a start over was ok.

[dghilardi]

This link doesn't work.

http://synergiscadblog.com/2014/03/28/working-with-autodesk-inventor-content-center-part-3-of-3/

[Mark.Lancaster]

@dghilardi 

Sorry about that..   We had a major overhaul of our blog portion of our web page..

Here's the new link https://www.synergis.com/working-with-autodesk-inventor-content-center-part-3-of-3/

[MBPedersen_DK]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. even though it is bad news..

I have just found out, that the one who had my job before me, by accident have made two different folders for some of the pumps we are are using.. for instance one called "CR5-4" (without space) and one called "CR 5-4" (with space). and in one of the folders are some one of the pumps in that category, and an other pump in the other folder..

So now when my coworkers look for for a CR 5-4 pump, they will only see one out of two pumps, and they will not be aware, that there are two different versions.. and because of that there will be a 50/50 risk that they get the wrong one, if they don't notice it have the wrong number.. and both pumps have already most likely been used in several projects, so I can't very well just delete the ones in the wrong folder and make a new ones in the correct folders, and it have happened with several folders, and that would also take a long time, so I hoped, it were possible to move the Content Center parts, from one folder to an other.. as if they just had been parts in Vault. but I guess, that aren't the case.. very annoying with this kind of limitations.

[plausa.us]

M BPedersen_DK I know you're asking Mark and perhaps his expertise is what you which to wait for or confirm what I'm about to say.  I am also assuming that the two folders have the same tables, template origins, there is only a space that is different and perhaps it was accidentally copied.

1) rename the files (to add/or remove the space).

2) move the renamed files to the other folder

3) Regenerate these files, to create a new version, to act as thou they have always come from this folder.

           a) You will need admin rights

           b) In inventor open an assembly.  Place from CC these pumps you renamed but from the correct folder they now reside.  It will ask you if you want to get the ones from vault - NO, It will ask you if you want to check out the ones from vault - YES.

           c) After they are all re-created, check them back into vault thus creating a new version.

As long as the tables were the same w/same origin they there should be no issues.  If later in one of the assemblies someone wishes to replace from CC the pump to another size pump it should all work fine as it now comes from that folder since it was regenerated. 

[MBPedersen_DK]

Thank you for your reply. the problem is that I can't move the part from one folder to an other..
so I can't do step 2. in your suggestion (unless you mean to do it on my hard-drive outside of inventor?)

To clarify the issue I have made a screenshot of what I were trying to do:
There is the part "96517038" in folder "CR5-3" I wish to move that to folder "CR 5-3"
I don't wish to rename it, I just wish to move it to the correct folder. 

But under Move to when I right click it, it only shows "AI2022_Libraries" not the sub-folders.

[plausa.us]

If you are showing me Inventor - editing CC (Not vault).  No the folder can't be moved as stated in the 2015 solution.

I thought I understood you had two same folders one with a space one without, that actually produced the same parts.  And some were created from each folder.   But as you explain now, it is the subfolder 96517038 inside a different folder needing to be moved.  The answer is the same as in 2015 it can't be moved.  Sorry

[MBPedersen_DK]

OK, that's a shame, but thanks for trying to help. I do appreciate that 🙂