I am revamping all of our drawing templates in advance of an EPDM rollout in the next couple of months. Our current drawing templates include a revision table; where we enter a revision description, the name of the person performing the revision, and the date of the revision. From, what I've read, it seems like EPDM doesn't integrate with revision tables out of the box. You can ge the revision number on the drawing, but I didn't see any mention of revision tables in the EPDM Admin Guide.
Have I missed something, or do EPDM users manually update the revision table? Or perhaps, you don't use revision tables at all, and instead rely on the PDM file history to tell you what happened. If so, how do you handle drawings sent to outside companies for manufacture and such?
Jim S.
Take a look at this blog post from Razorleaf.
We do as others mention here for the revision block. We update it manually. Something the post doesn't mention is that the preview and file are not actually updated until it is checked out again. EPDM can not modify a file beyond the file properites when the file is checked in. Since transitions happen when a file is checked in, your revision block will not be updated until it is checked out.
I wrote an add-in a while back to tackle this but it was cumbersome to say the least. Check-in file, change state, get transition comment, update revision comment variable, change state again, check out, update revision block, check back in, change state one last time.
Hrm, I may try it again using a task...