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Why WIP state does not show up on drawing, until part has been released and put back into WIP?

Question asked by Chris B. on Oct 6, 2015
Latest reply on Oct 7, 2015 by Chris B.
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Hi All,

 

I have a note in title block linked to the state of the part on the drawing.  When the part is new, checked into the Vault but not released, its state is "WIP."  However this state does not show up on the drawing.  When the part is in the next states (Pending Approval, Released), those states DO show up on the drawing.  And then when I make a new revision, and the part goes back into the initial WIP state, then WIP does show up on the drawing.

 

So why it doesn't show up the first time around?

Any guesses?

Prasad Bhonsule
Prasad Bhonsule Oct 7, 2015 2:43 AM
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Hi Chris, I would imagine that your note in the drawing is linked to custom property called "State" or similar.

 

When the file is moving through the EPDM workflow, you probably have a transition action set to set a variable for the workflow state, this gets written to the file's data card, and consequently to the custom property, hence it shows up in the drawing.

 

However, when the file is first checked in, there is no transition it goes through, so no variables are set, and no custom properties are updated.

 

You could achieve this by adding a couple of automatic transitions, one of which writes the state to the file's datacard and then returns back to the WIP state.

 

See the attached CEX file for an example workflow.

 

Hope it helps.

 

Thanks

 

Prasad

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