I have existing drawings parts and assemblies and I have used the revision ($PRP:"Revision") field to keep track of drawing revisions before contemplating the use of workgroupPDM.
$PRP:"Revision" is blank in the parts and assemblies and populkated with A,B,C,D, etc in the drawings.
When I check the drawings in to the vault the field is overwritten with the issue as it is set up for PDM vault (to begin with A 01 for example). The previously data in $PRP:"Revision" is lost.
How can I make it preserve the current issue status? (and still be able to "bulk check-in")
Perhaps I need to create a new custom field for the pre-PDM issue and copy the existing data into that. I'll need to do that for many files (about 20+ Gb of data).
I dont know where to start with that.
I can see that it will likely require a good bit of time and I don't really know how to suggest a shortcut. When checking a file into the vault you can choose "other" from the pull-down rev list (depending on how your Vault Admin settings allow) but it is a file-by-file process.
Just curious - how come the rev is blank for the parts/assemblies but the drawing has been rev'd? The only reason I can think of is that the changes were only spelling or other non-form/fit/function reasons.