What are the best practices for renaming files in SolidWorks
and PDMEnterprise? I am testing every possible technique to
accomplish this, but am running into so many issues I am losing
faith.
If I RMC on the file and select SolidWorks>Rename it does
not rename the file. It generates a new file with the new file name
whether or not the file is checked in. This does not work as a
rename, but a copy file to new name. What am I missing?
This is what we got from our VAR when we reported this
problem:
After reviewing the information on the problem that you reported
initially, SolidWorks has issued a bug report (SPR 356170). So, it
seems that there are two problems with 'rename' in PDMWE 2008 SP3.
Until you can upgrade to SP4 I recommend using the PDMWE 'rename'
command and then immediately opening referencing documents in
SolidWorks and updating the links manually (as you already have
done).
There was another SPR (437115) that supposedly fixed the PDMWE
rename command in SP 4.0 but we're still on 3.1 so I can't verify
that.
WT