Part file read only status when in use
Part file read only status when in use
(OP)
NX 6 or 7 or 7.5. Is there setting, a swich that you can flip, etc. that would make is such that when you are working in native mode and user 1 has a file open, and then user 2 tries to open that same part file that it gives him a read only status message and continues to let him open in read only? Like other Windoze applications do. I know, I know, the answer is Teamcenter. But we are not there yet and I am hoping that there is something simple we could do in the meantime.





RE: Part file read only status when in use
If you are the owner of the file (whether you have it open or not) and someone else opens the file it will display 'read-only' in the title bar after the part name (and prevent that user from saving over the file).
RE: Part file read only status when in use
could you please explain this issue a little more? Do you mean you can set the file premission in NX itself or do you do this by hand in Windows explorer, or somewhere else...?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Michäël.
NX4.0.4.2 MP10 / TCE 9.1.3.8_build_0711 / NX6.0.2.8 / NX7.0.0.9
Belgium
RE: Part file read only status when in use
Best Regards
Hudson
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RE: Part file read only status when in use
RE: Part file read only status when in use
This approach works best with a small local team. If you have a large team or are spread out across multiple locations then this solution will not work so well.
RE: Part file read only status when in use
RE: Part file read only status when in use
This sounds like a case where the sales teams overrides common since in an effort to push Teamless Center. If Team Center could run as good as native NX, man it'd be worth the 250,000 plus 30k a year for a cad vault!
Ummm well sorta... not really.
Keegan
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RE: Part file read only status when in use
I agree that Linux servers where possible are still one of the more effective ways to manage a networked file system. Interestingly and depending on the way things are set up I don't know that while running under windows from a client that you're any better able to lock the files while in use and only while in use than if you had only windows machines in the same equation. What you can do in either case that I am aware of is to set up ownership restrictions as I mentioned earlier using creator owner for example in windows.
BOPdesigner & Others,
Despite the consideration that Teamcenter and variants thereof may be superior NX does have some tool which provide for working in a disciplined manner with file ownerships in the form of Part Name Versions. We have made good use the Military System and require that instead of sharing ownership users may supersede earlier versions of a file if necessary. The military system takes the form of <filename>.01.02.03 as is familiar to most for software releases, it allows that the major numbers are drawing releases and the minor numbers are used to manage superseding files for the internal file management purposes above mentioned. From an office management and work flow management perspective this can be a most desirable system because it was felt by most that it reflected the right amount of responsibility and discipline. Native systems instituted prior to that time allowed that he who saves first saves longest and created many disputes over the journey.
Best Regards
Hudson
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RE: Part file read only status when in use
Sorry, no good answer this time,
Rick
PS- I know excel will lockout everyone except the first user opening a file, maybe if you know some programing you could see how excel does this and implement it somehow?
RE: Part file read only status when in use
As I mentioned in an earlier post, properly set up file permissions will allow the file to be opened by other users, but only the owner will be able to save it.
RE: Part file read only status when in use
Unless your cooperation is huge I think purchasing TeamCenter may only slow things down and cause you to hire more people to tame it. In a smaller environment, procedures, security settings, etc can do just as much as a PLM without the hefty price tag.
Just an opinion.
Keegan
RE: Part file read only status when in use
Teamcenter is nice to big companys, there a light solution for NX doing those things look at:
http://www.oases.ch/web/index.php?lang=en
RE: Part file read only status when in use