2017 Mass PDF upload issues...itemized names and description uneditable

[timrobertsprovisur]

Vault 2017 - we have 15,000 PDF files to upload, extract iproperties, add custom iproperties from our ERP system and re-insert with the new values.

The major issues we are facing are that the PDFs when itemized get an one-up number for the item number, we need this to match the filename...so users can search and find the item by filename.

So right now, we upload 000002-a.pdf - it's item number is one-up'd to 100024, we need the item to be 000002-a.

Also, we are extracting the iproperties and injecting fields from our ERP system and for the custom PDF category we created, we cannot edit the DESCRIPTION field. NOTE: If you upload a different non-cad data file like a .doc file, you can edit description...where is THIS setup and how?

Thanks in advance!!

Tim Roberts

[wayne.brill]

Hi Tim,

I am not sure of a solution for this. Can you provide code examples that are producing these issues?

If you are not using the Vault API please post these issues on the Vault forum.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/vault-forum/bd-p/101

Thanks,

Wayne

[timrobertsprovisur · Accepted solution]

Found the answers to my questions; to help others looking in the future, one blog that got me close on the Description field being editable was this one...

http://blogs.rand.com/support/2014/03/cannot-edit-user-defined-properties-in-vaulted-pdfs.html

Otherwise, see attached PDFs for additional info for how I solved these for my company and Vault 2017.

NOTE: I had already created the new PDF "file" category prior to these solutions.

Tim Roberts