Every now and then we archive items in our WorkGroup vault. We have a folder/project with limited visibility named "Archive" in the WorkGroup vault. When someone wants to archive a set of files, they perform a change project command on the files and move them into "Archive". With EDPM I think we still prefer to have an "Archive" folder, but I think it may be advantageous to put these files in an "archive" workflow to ensure they are frozen in time and no more revs occur. Is there a way to perform both functions... move the selected file(s) to the archive area and set their workflow to "archive" in one command?. Would Dispatch be the method to accomplish that? The cherry on top would be also moving a file's PDF output from its folder to the archive at the time the move to archive action was fired. Thoughts?
Hi Pete,
Sorry about the delay getting back to you, I wasn't alerted to the reply. OK, I think we missed out one step. In EPDM when you select a Part (that has a drawing attached) and change State on it even though the Drawing is in effect the 'parent' node for the Part you see it in the transition box. This is different behavior to a Part that is used in an Assembly (you only see the Part in the transition). This comes down to the fact that in EPDM, under File Types we can define file types that can be used as 'Drawing Nodes' for different files. In the case of SLDASM and SLDPRT these have been added automatically as SLDDRW and PDF. What we need to do is add a Drawing Node of PDF for SLDDRW.
You can verify that this is working because you will now see the PDF in 'blue' above the Drawing in the Contains Tab (as long as you have 'do not show configurations' checked.
Now if you select the Drawing and push it through a transition you will see the PDF in the position you would normally see a Drawing when pushing through a Part. (in the image i am looking at the Where Used NOT Contains Tab)
Hope that helps!!
I've put together a blog post on our website that actually goes through the whole process step by step if anybody else is interested...
Kind regards
Wayne Marshall
Solid Solutions Management