Daylight Savings Time Change and PDMWorks Vault Issue 2

[EEnd]

We were having an issue with our PDMWorks vault this last week and since I can see it happening to others out there, I thought I would pass along the solution.

The problem that we were seeing was that all of the files that we were checking in were getting red flagged as being a different file than the one in the vault. To complete the check in we would have to manually select every part / assembly in the list that we wanted to check in. This in turn would generate a warning box for each item checked.

I believe the cause of this is that, with the time change this weekend, the time stamp of the files in the vault changed, and this was making the file look like it was a different file, but with the same name, than the one that it though it had in the vault.

What seems to have fixed the problem was restarting the vault. However, the vault must be set to validate itself at startup. This can be set through the vault admin tool to occur at every startup or just the next startup. It took around 20 min for the vault to complete the restart, but it seems to have fixed the issue.

Eric

 

[SBaugh]

Yes the time change always messes the PDMworks up and your answer is what fixes that issue everytime.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[ctopher]

This problem was fixed for PDMWorks 2007.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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[Standing]

Yes, Eric is right for SolidWorks 2006 and before. Then Chris is right for SolidWorks 2007. We did not restart the vault this year and everything is good. I do start and stop the PDM Workgroup Server every chance I get before anyone else starts working. This seems to keep the vault running smoothly. We do have the vault set to validate itself at startup.

Bradley