Browser displayname/occurrence name

Browser displayname/occurrence name

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Browser displayname/occurrence name

Anonymous
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Hi i have a problem with display names in the model/assembly browser etc.

What would be ideal - Inventor had the ability to concenate iproperties in the model and assembly browser (similar to what can be done from the vault tab in the browser)

Currently i am using an external ilogic rule to set displayname = Title + part number

The problems that occur with this procedure are
    
    No updates to displayname occur when performing a copy design in vault
    There is no ilogic trigger for save as (or rather after save as)
    I don't want to trigger on file open because this will make all files request to check out from Vault each time they are opened.
    Changes don't update if I save a file from another assembly. For example, if i update part number from top level assy bom, and hit save. The       occurrence display name does not update.


We use Vault Pro 17 and Inventor 17 and a number scheme with no "intelligence" is used, ex. ABC-000001, so no information can be read from the filename alone.

What are best practices in this case? Does anyone have a solution to any of the problems listed above? I'm leaning towards building my own "rename browser nodes" right now. And leave display name as is.

 

Thankful for any input

 

//J

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ekinsb
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I'm not sure what iLogic provides access to but it is possible using some events provided through Inventor's API to know that a Save As has occurred.  The main event to use for this is the ApplicationEvents.OnSaveDocument event.  Through the context argument you can determine if it was a standard save or save as.


Brian Ekins
Inventor and Fusion 360 API Expert
Mod the Machine blog
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J.VandeMerckt
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Did you ever fix this issue?
We are struggling with the exact same thing.

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