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  • Building Property Pages

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    By default, Vault Explorer provides the View Properties Grid which provides a list of all property values for the selected object. This is a nice default view, but us developers commonly want to have customized property views (aka. property pages). So here is a quick primer on creating property pages in Vault Explorer.

  • Autodesk.Connectivity.Explorer.ExtensibilityTools.dll

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    I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Autodesk.Connectivity.Explorer.ExtensibilityTools.dll so I thought I would explain a bit about it. On the surface it looks like a collection of useful functions, but there’s more to it that you should be aware of.

  • Properties in Vault 2011 – Part 4

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    This posting is all about source code.  Here you will find useful code snippets for dealing with properties.  How to get the list of legal values for a property definition If you have a property definition that contains a list of legal values, you need to get the PropDefInfo object to read that list of…

  • Properties in Vault 2011 – Part 3

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    This article will focus on Item properties, so feel free to skip this one if you are not using Vault Professional or do not use Items.  If you haven't read the article on Entities, you might want to do that first.  And, obviously, parts 1 and 2 should be read. Item Properties Items is one…

  • Properties In Vault 2011 – Part 1

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    If you have upgraded to Vault 2011, you may have noticed some changes regarding how properties work.  And when I say "some changes," I really mean "many changes."  Actually, "re-architecture" is probably a better term to describe what we did to properties. If you read my earlier article on properties, feel free to forget it. …

  • The Folder Property

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    Update:The Vault 2012 version can be found here. Overview: A utility that sets the Vault path as a file property. Requirements: Vault Workgroup/Collaboration/Manufacturing 2010 Click here to get the application Click here to get the source code Introduction: I've had a few requests for this one.  Since it was a pretty cool idea and not…

  • File Properties Explained

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    The way Vault handles file properties is… interesting.  There are good reasons for the way things work, but the mechanics aren't very apparent and first.  So let me take some time to go over the concept of File properties. Properties that Live Inside the File Let's start out with the basics.  We'll take a look…