I'm creating a vault and working out all of the bugs (test vault)
why does work group write properties into the documents that I check in?
how can I stop this from happening?
-I have only a few documents that I am working with and in the course of adding projects then deleting them to just create more or more defined projects when I try to check these same documents in the vault wont allow it because it has written a project into the properties of the document and i no longer have that project in my vault. through swexplore, I have been able to delete the properties (did not work)
- I have gone in to the vault folder that holds the projects and have deleted the project folders and the documents however when I open sw explore or sw the folders are still present including the documents. I have tried to delete them form these places and I get an error 53.
do I have to delete these from my local drive?
I haven't had this issue up until now..
any ideas?
I can understand why you would think your attempts should work and I would think the same except that Workgroup does not work like a traditional database. I think what is happening is that a file cannot exist in the Workgroup Vault unless it has been assigned to a project or sub-project. If you attempt to remove the info from the "project" property, the file would have no home, so it likely maintains the last property.
We used to have a custom property "project" for our parts/assy/dwg and realized early on that it will be overwritten when checking the file into a vault. This can be a problem if your part is used in several projects and you expect it to be shown in a drawing title-block.