Observed on Vault Professional 2026.
In my Vault setup the automatic generation of views is disabled. Recently my team started to use these views in a drawing review process (we annotate them). Users generate the views on demand, locally (not using the job processor).
Side note: a view is basically a hidden DWF file, that is generated and saved by Vault right next to the source file (DWG file in our case).
We noticed such problems:
1. Sometimes Vault says there's no view for specific file (although the DWF exists), we click "update" to generate it, Vault fails with the below message. The only workaround I found is to manually delete the DWF and regenerate the view in Vault
2. Sometimes Vault says there's no view for specific file (although the DWF exists), we click "update" to generate it, and surprisingly Vault succeeds to create the view.
Side note: I noticed, that files that have such problems are the ones that have the 'Visualisation attachment' set to 'None', and the ones for which Vault recognizes their view properly they have it set to 'System'. Thus far I don't see any difference between the ones for which Vault can regenerate the view vs the ones for which it fails.
A. Does anyone know why such situations happen?
B. And why sometimes Vault manages to generate the view once again and sometimes it doesn't?
C. Is there any other workaround than deleting the DWF file?
