We're considering migrating all of our EPDM data to a new EPDM vault. Taking our local vault data into a global EPDM vault.
Can anyone recommend a tool to do this?
Would need to move all files, folders, properties, links, current workflows state. No history.
Or am I bat crazy? Thanks for input!
Our current local live vault does exist. Global vault is being set up but not live yet.
Hi Terry,
We're considering a similar thing. Did you find a good solution?
Regards,
Chris
No we have not done this yet. Our consultant, CADmes, says they have a tool. I have not seen it yet. Best of luck!
Hi Terry, the company I work for has been working on a project similar to this for a client of ours.
If you are only taking the latest versions of all files, then you could do a "Get Latest Version" at the root level of the vault, copy and paste into your new vault. If you are not copying over everything at once, then you could do several Copy/Move tree operations for your SolidWorks files. That would allow you to select whether the latest versions of those files are taken, or the versions referenced in the assemblies.
BEFORE you do this however, you need to make sure that the new vault is setup correctly. You could take a CEX export of your old vault and use it to create users, groups, workflows templates, data cards, variables etc in the new vault. However permissions will not carry over, so you need to take screenshots etc to make sure they are replicated in the new vault.
As with anything in EPDM, TEST, TEST, TEST is the best advice that I can offer from my experience.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Prasad
Yeah thats the easy part.
Complication comes in saving all the data card info for our many files that don't save the info into the file, like pdfs, folders, mathcad, other file types.
Hi Terry yes that is more complicated .
As your consultant say, they have a tool for it.
You can certainly design tools to read the data from data cards, store it temporarily in a database or spreadhseet etc, then write it into new data cards in the new vault. In fact we are doing this now for a client who wishes to migrate 50 years of legacy data into EPDM!
Prasad
Do both vaults currently exist?