PDMWorks Revisioning Help

Hello All!

I'm trying to implement a really simple PDMWorks setup but I am a bit
confused. I want a simple revisioning scheme of 00-99. Each time a
user checks in a file I want it to check in at the same revision it was
check out unless the user explicitly changes it. I also want to have a
history of the file for every checking....but I can't seem to figure
out how to do this. Everything I try ends up causing the revision to
automatically get bumped at each checking.

Any suggestions?

 

Any suggestions as what specifically to look for in the Vault Admin
setup.....

~ds

 

I would say the best thang to do here is call your VAR and refer to
PDMWorks help file or training course.

It's not that we can't help you, but that these are pretty basic
questions about PDMWorks. If you don't know these areas and mess
around with them, you could cause issues you won't be aware of until
they pop up.

 

I've got a pretty decent knowledge of PDMWorks...I've just never setup
a vault from scratch. I guess what im trying to figure out is when you
check in a new file, how do you force it to default the revision to
"Read from File" instead of next logical revision.

~ds

 

Dave,

PDMWorks stores revisions as separate files in the vault. The only way
to keep a history of every checkin (for viewing purposes I'm assuming)
is to allow the revision to get bumped. If you need just the 00-99 as
the Primary revision, but want to maintain that viewing history, use
the Secondary revision 00.01, 00.02, etc. to store this info.

If all you want is to be able to know who is checking what files in (a
line in the database for example) and only need to view the Released
revision 00-99 then you can use the Working Copy (adds a + symbol to
the end of the revision by default) which will overwrite itself until
the user manually forces to the next primary revision. The checkin
history will still be there, though.

Hope this helps,

Steve O

 

To go with this, when you check in to PDMWorks using the "Read From
File" version level, I wish it would also place the previous revision
text into the table. Most of the time, your description is going to be
the exact same as what you are overwriting.

(A different) Dave

 

Not possible. Use working copy (+) instead.

FWIW, in 2005, using "read from file" would randomly corrupt the "as-built".
Since this experience, we never use "read from file".