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Renaming in PDM Works

Renaming in PDM Works

Renaming in PDM Works

(OP)
Hello All,

I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing a renaimng error in PDM Works. For some reason I get a failed to rename document error when trying to rename parts/assemblies in PDM Works. It will however let me rename Drawings and .PDF's. I assume this is because the drawing/PDF does not have any references. I claim ownership on the assemblies and their children and still get the same error.  I am also the PDM Vault Admin and I have the checkmark checked to allow user's to rename documents. Anyone know what's up?

Best Regards,
Jon

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Solidworks 2006 SP0.0

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

There is a setting for allowing users to rename. I can't remember exactly where it is right now.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

(OP)
Ctopher,

If you would have read my entire post you would have read this:

Quote:

I am also the PDM Vault Admin and I have the checkmark checked to allow user's to rename documents.

Best Regards,
Jon

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Solidworks 2006 SP0.0

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

Jon,
sorry, I was reading too fast.
I don't know why it is not renaming. As you know...The only reasons I can think of is if you are not the owner, you are using symbols i.e /~, or there is a bug.
Also, is it possible they were set as read only and can not be renamed?

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

It sounds like someone else may have claimed ownership on a file that is referenced by what you are trying to rename.  Otherwise, it could be a bug, as ctopher said.

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

(OP)
Thank you both for your suggestions. I have found that the file is not owned by anyone else and it is not read-only. I am thinking it is a bug that will hopefully be fixed in SP1.

Best Regards,
Jon

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Solidworks 2006 SP0.0

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

As a longer version of what PDMAdim said:

When you rename a document in PDMWorks, PDMWorks goes through and modifies all of the files (assemblies, drawings or parts) which reference that file.  This allows the referencing files to have the new name for the file that you are renaming.

If any of the referencing files (not the file you are trying to rename) are owned by someone else (maybe even someone at all) PDMWorks refuses to modify the reference, because the change would get overwritten when whoever owns them, checks the file back in.

Hope this helps,

Eric

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

I have seen a problem similar to yours. In my particular case(pdmworks 2004) I could not rename a solidworks document that was referenced by a non-solidworks file which was in my case a pdf file. If I removed the reference then I was able to rename the solidworks file fine. I have not checked this on the lastest version of PDMWorks so it is possible they have fixed this and you are experiencing a new problem.

Good Luck.

Sam M.

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

I had problem renaming a part file.  To make a long story short, I spent 1 hour on the phone with my VAR and Solidworks.  The best suggestion they had was to restart the vault service on the server.  I followed their suggestion and the problem was solved.  Apparently, the file structure had to be rebuilt.

Good Luck,

Nick

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

I agree.  Restarting the vault service seems to be the solution to most errors...Make sure that you have the checkboxes selected to validate structure and rebuild tree in the vault admin tool.

Also, if one of the files that references the document is in a project you don't have access to it may not let you rename it.

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

(OP)
Okay we talked to our IT department and had them restart our vault, but that did not seem to work. Maybe we did not do it properly. Does anyone have any step-by-step instructions to restart the vault properly so I can hand that to our IT department? Anything anyone can offer would be great.

Best Regards,
Jon

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Solidworks 2006 SP0.0

RE: Renaming in PDM Works

The best way to restart the vault is to restart the PDM service on the Windows machine.  If your PDM file server is not the same as the machine running the PDM service, always shut down the service before you reboot the file server.  However, in most cases, you should not need to reboot the file server unless it is having obvious problems.

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