Mike ‘The Vault’ Thomas cracks on with letting you lot know what’s up with Vault Professional R2. This time he has a tinker with the new Item Lifecycle engine now it’s been endowed with all the flexibility and abilities of the file lifecyle management tool set.
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Most people have a real love-hate relationship with Vault’s Copy Design… its big, clunky, and very slow…. but its still better to use than manually copying and renaming files. With this mid-year release Autodesk set out to build a bigger, stronger, and much faster Copy Design and voila we have it now in Vault 2015 R2! So what does Mike think about it?
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Mid year “Extensions” are not unheard of, even for Vault, but the significance of Vault 2015 R2 from a feature & functionality aspect AND from what’s been disabled means you really need to sit down with a cup of coffee and consider the pros and cons, the good and the bad, and the benefits to your organization before installing it. Mike gets you started with his take and some pointers!
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Do you use Vault primarily with non-AutoCAD Autodesk products? Do you work with AutoCAD in such a way that you rarely use Xrefs? If so, then you may not be aware of the existence of AutoCAD’s Vault browser. Scott shares some details and a video, demoing its use and one of its caveats.
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In the final post of the Microsoft SharePoint and Autodesk Vault integration series, Chris shows you how to leverage the power of shared databases. Read how to configure SharePoint search, including troubleshooting it, create SharePoint Lists and their Filters. All so you can make it easy as possible for SharePoint end users to access your released CAD data.
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The 3rd post in this series has Chris Benner addressing permission problems and database update conflicts associated with Vault login, which you may encounter with the Autodesk Vault Professional 2015 and SharePoint 2013 integration.
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