Check version matches Vault

[alasdair_crawford]

Hi all,

Working with Inventor Professional 2023 and Vault Basic.

We have found an issue where a user can have an old version of a file saved on their local drive, which doesn't match the latest version in the vault. The user can check out the file, without doing a "get" to get the latest version, and then check in. Thus making the old, outdated version the latest in the vault and overwriting changes that everyone else has made. There is no warning to alert users that they are doing this. While we can mitigate this by telling everyone to open from the vault and not from their local file, accidents happen.

I would like to create a warning pop-up that occurs on opening of a file, if the file being opened does not match the version in the vault. This would give the user the option to continue opening anyway, or to cancel and get the correct version.

Vault Basic has the function to check this manually, as it colour codes things and displays a message "Incorrect version Refresh the File" on mouse-over, but I don't know how to access this info through iLogic.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Alasdair

[mfoster9TD82]

Not sure If you can use the Vault API with Vault Basic:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/vault-customization/is-vault-base-basic-api-supported/td-p/9607542

If you can, Tiffany Hayden did a great talk on accessing vault with iLogic at Autodesk university this year:
https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Breaking-into-the-Vault-iLogic-Edition-2023

I'd suggest trying some simple vault calls to see if you can actually use the Vault API, if you can then look at the Vault Customization forum and the vault SDK docs to help you do what you want.