Hugh Kanner
Enterprise PDM Admin Tech Tip: Exporting Vault Configuration
The Enterprise PDM Administration tool contains the vault configuration (users/groups, data cards, templates, workflows, etc.). It is advisable to have multiple vaults to allow for separate testing, training, or development environments. This allows the EPDM administrator the ability to change configuration without impacting users working in the live environment. With this approach, changes to custom [...]
SolidWorks EPDM Admin Tech Tip: Undo Checkout
Hopefully your users will remember to check in their documents regularly, and particularly when they will be out of the office. What happens when this is not the case and someone else needs to work on them? Enterprise PDM protects documents from update if they are checked out by another user. Here I’m logged in [...]
SolidWorks EPDM User Tech Tip: Remember to check your documents in!
Enterprise PDM provides a secure vault for your documents and the check-out / check-in process prevents more than one user from making updates at the same time. Until you check your changes back in, other users are unable to see them and they don’t have the ability to apply other changes. Since one of the key benefits of Enterprise PDM is multi-user collaboration, documents that are unnecessarily checked out can introduce bottlenecks.
