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Define Different Folder for Common Vault Commands

Define Different Folder for Common Vault Commands

Whenever a common Vault command such as Copy Design, Create DWF, Move\Rename File\Folder is executed, Vault will download the files to a folder called C:\TEMP

 

Additionally, it will create a subfolder with 36 characters such as "6c767920-34ea-4ad2-8323-968ac133647c"

 

C:\TEMP\6c767920-34ea-4ad2-8323-968ac133647c

 

 

There are two requests here

 

Request 1 Define a different location besides C:\ for the "TEMP" folder.

Some companies enforce a group policy to restrict Users writing to the C:\ drive. Members of the Power Users or Administrators groups might have no problem writing to this location. The request is to define a location other than the C:\ drive for the location of the "TEMP" folder

 

Request 2 Reduce the length of the 36 character GUID

Many customers have a very deep folder structure. Many of the above Vault commands fail because the path becomes too long. The 36 character GUID is very, very long. It needs to be unique, but it could be unique with fewer characters (12 should be sufficient). If the code could be adjusted to instead increment a folder upwards from 0000001, then when it got to 9999999, it checked to see if 0000001 existed, delete it, if it does, and then execute its current job. The logic being that it would take several months, possibly years, before 10 million jobs had been processed.

 

The way this currently works is causing significant numbers of problems for customers.

 

3 Comments
ihayesjr
Community Manager

The location of the Temp folder is an environment variable controlled by the operating system. Are you asking to define a unique Temp folder for Vault?

stuart_smith82
Advocate

I think what is being asked is simple,  please fix the problem. Allow users to specify a new temp location via job processor dialogue or via another method that is not the windows default. And reduce unique folder name from 36 characters to 10 or less. Frankly it is ridiculous this is still a problem.

upchurt
Autodesk

@Richard.Rankin could you edit this idea to include the part about the environmental variable? The Vault client is not currently using this variable but I think that would be the best option to enhancing the client.

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