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Expand all Levels in Vault Browser of Inventor

Situation: You are working on a bigger assembly in Inventor and if you look at the Vault Browser you don´t see all levels of the assembly structure expanded:

To expand all levels you need to mark the top level assembly in your browser and press the * button of your numeric keyboard area:

Now you see all levels expanded:

Background: Vault just adapted the windows functionality to expand all subfolders of a marked folder with the * button

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Checkout Dialog in Inventor missing and Message from Inventor that File is in Read-Only

Issue: You are working on an assembly (checked-out) in Inventor and some sub-components are checked in.You try to edit one of the components. You usually should get the checkout dialog from Vault but instead you just get this Inventor dialog that the file is read-only:

Verify in the Inventor Vault Ribbon - File Status - Options and open the "Prompts..." dialog:

You see that on File Edit - "File '{0} is not checked out. Do you want to check it out now?' the Response is the to "No" and the Frequency is set to "Never Prompt"

Solution: Change the answer here to "Yes" or "Yes/all" and/or set the Frequency to "Always Prompt"

Background: you once chose on this dialog in Inventor:
...the Answer "No" and "Don´t everprompt again"

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Vault Check In Error and Content Center Language

You are working with a Vault project and while checking in an assembly with its components you get the Check In Error below related to some Content Center standard parts.

In general, this error that prevents you from checking in the assembly is due to two contributory causes

The first one is the Vault setting “Enforce Unique File Names”.

This is a very common setting for most of the Companies using Vault.

 

The second cause is when the Inventor users, sharing the common Vault project, use Inventor in different languages.

In general, when this is the case, the users don't change the Content Center Language, that is the same of the product they are using by default.

By the way, when users that share the same project use Inventor in different languages, it is recommended they configure the Content Center to use the same language.

If they don’t do that, you can read below the details of a possible scenario that can lead to the Check In error.

 

A Content Center standard part resides in Vault because it has been inserted and checked in by an user, using the English language for the Content Center.

Another user inserts in another assembly the same standard part from the Content Center.

If this second user uses the same language for the Content Center, the standard part will be retrieved from Vault.

So, there is no problem checking in the assembly, because the standard part will not be listed in the files to be checked in.

Instead, if the second user is using a different language for the Content Center (i.e.: German), the standard part file will be created under the subfolder related to the Content Center Language (i.e.: C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\Inventor\Content Center Files\R2013\de-DE\DIN 404(1)) and it will not be retrieved from Vault, because the folder structure is different.

So, when you check in the assembly, Inventor will try to check in also this standard part and you will get the Check In Error because actually a file with the same name is already in the Vault.

 

By the way, if this is your case and you are stuck because you cannot check in your assembly you can follow the steps below for solving the problem.

• In Vault Explorer check the Content Center language the other users are using for inserting the standard parts in the assemblies (i.e.: en-US = English).

• In Inventor (without closing the assembly you cannot check in), menu Manage > Content Center > Editor.

• In the Content Center Editor, menu Tools > Language Setting and set the language as the other users > Done.

• Menu Manage > Content Center > Refresh Standard Components.

• All the standard parts inserted with a different Content Center Language will be listed and refreshed.

• After that, save and check in the assembly.

No error message will appear this time.

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Use one Vault Project file (Inventor)

Using multiple Inventor project files can have an impact on how an assembly file resolves the children it consumes. Autodesk has published a best practice on how to configure one Vaulted project file here.

BEST PRACTICE FOR VAULT PROJECTS

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Vault Client - Open error

After selecting a file in the vault client and double clicking on it or RMB>Open, you see the following message:

"This file was created with Inventor. We cannot find this application on your computer."

 

This can happen if another program has become associated with Inventor assembly files. In this situation, the message was caused by Importing an Inventor file into Autodesk Showcase 2012, which although is not a Qualifying CAD Application for Vault, it is still a part of the Product Design Suite.

The workaround is to close the Vault Client and Inventor and re-start Inventor. This will re-register Inventor with the Operating System.

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Serious Issues like Performance and/or Crashing of the Vault Client

This is a reminder as we constantly receive this kind of requests.

Issue which appears suddenly on all workstations: the Vault Client Application is either crashing (usually after a few Minutes working with the Vault) or you experience serious performance issues.

Root of the issue is that the IT department introduced a proxy Server in the company. Usually a specific proxy script is introduced.

Solution: Make sure you configured the proxy Server as described in the Vault Wiki.

If you need to have a specific proxy script running it is your responsibility to configure it properly that it bypasses all requests about the communication between the Vault Server and the Vault Clients.

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Vault and Content Center Log in / out and Connection Option missing in Inventor

In your Inventor installation the Vault and Content Center Log in / out and Connection Options are missing.

In the Add-in Manager list the Content Center and the Vault add-ins are loaded.

But, if you use the command Place from Content Center, in case you are retrieving the Content Center Libraries from the Vault Server, nothing happens.

The Place from Content Center works instead if you use the Inventor Desktop Content Libraries

If you use a Vault project, you have the same problem using the command Place from Vault.

In the Vault browser, you get the tooltip saying that the Vault is not opened

But, if you right-click and select Login from the context menu, nothing happens as well.

In order to restore these functionalities, try the following.

• Menu Tools > Options > Add-Ins.
• Right-click in the Add-ins list and select Shows Hidden Members.

• After that, the EDM Addin should appear in the list.

• Select the checkboxes Loaded/Unloaded and Load Automatically and click OK.

In case the EDM Addin does not appear in the list after selecting the Shows Hidden Members option, try to re-register it following the steps of the technical solution http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS13404857

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Error 1328. When Applying Vault 2012 Update 1

During the installation of Vault 2012 Update 1 (Autodesk Vault 2012 Update 1 (Client).msp) you see this error.

Error 1328. Error applying patch to file C:\Config.msi\XXXXXX.tmp. It has probably been updated by other means, and can no longer be modified by this patch. For more information contact your patch vendor.

This is caused by a problem with the "Connectivity.Branding.Vault.dll" file and reports indicate that this particular message is only occurring with plain Vault installed from one of the new suites. The dll is not present with the licenced versions of Vault and so we have no reports of this happening with Vault Workgroup, Collaboration or Professional clients.

UPDATE 02/11/2011

We have reproduced this internally and Autodesk is working on a solution that avoids the problem. Initially a solution was identified to replace the above mentioned dll with another version, However this could have unforeseen side effects and we would suggest that you wait until a formal solution is in place. We appreciate your patience.

We also are seeing reports of a different install error occurring with the licenced versions of Vault, but with different dll files. So far have not reproduced this internally. If you are experiencing the issue with a different dll, please log a support case with Autodesk.

Update 30/11/2011

This issue should be addressed by ts18131263

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How to remove unwanted OLE links in an Inventor file.

You are trying to Check In your Inventor file into the Vault and you get the message that there are missing OLE files.

You want to remove these redundant links.

You can remove the links by running the code, shown below from your VBA Editor:

Public Sub DeleteOLEReference()
    Dim oDoc As Document
    Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

    If oDoc.ReferencedOLEFileDescriptors.Count = 0 Then
        MsgBox "There aren't any OLE references in this document."
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Dim aOLERefs() As ReferencedOLEFileDescriptor
    ReDim aOLERefs(oDoc.ReferencedOLEFileDescriptors.Count - 1)

    Dim iRefCount As Integer
    iRefCount = oDoc.ReferencedOLEFileDescriptors.Count
    Dim i As Integer
    For i = 1 To iRefCount
        Set aOLERefs(i - 1) = oDoc.ReferencedOLEFileDescriptors.Item(i)
    Next

    For i = 1 To iRefCount
        If MsgBox("Delete """ & aOLERefs(i - 1).FullFileName & """?", vbQuestion + vbYesNo) = vbYes Then
            aOLERefs(i - 1).Delete
        End If
    Next
End Sub

Log In/Out icons missing on the Vault Toolbar.

You no longer have the ability to Log In or Out of Vault from Inventor 2010, the icons are missing from the Vault Toolbar.

Here is the link to the Technical Solution TS13404857