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PDMWorks Admin and read-only files

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chrissyd

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Jun 30, 2006
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I've been selected to be the PDMWorks vault admin. My only previous experience is that I was a user at my last company. So I have had to tackle one problem after another on my own trying to get this up and running. I finally figured out a solution for toolbox parts. Whew! They seem to be doing what they should be doing when I'm checking in an assembly. (Thank you to everyone who gave me feedback.) But NOW the problem is that when I open up my assembly, the assembly shows up as read-only. I can't do saves and I can't check it back into the vault. I've gone over my settings in vault-admin over and over again. All my settings in the projects, life-cycle, and users tabs are set to read-write access. I also have left all the settings very liberal in the vault settings tab (for now). And I've even gone as far as taking ownership of the assembly. So why is this assembly read-only to me??? Is there a simple solution that I am unaware of? Something that I don't realize needs to be checked off somewhere?
 
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You need to have ownership of the assembly to save it and or check it back in.
 
One thing to check is under Tools, Options, System Options, and External References. The top check box on the right, “Open referenced documents with read-only access” is it unchecked? Because you have ownership, it is not referenced. There could be many others; we will start with this one.

Bradley
 
Thanks Bradley. But I check external references and the box for "open referenced documents with read-only access" is not checked. It doesn't matter if I have or don't have ownership. Next suggestion? (By the way, I really appreciate your help.)
 
Do you have revs setup in admin? If not, it doesn't know what to check it in as.

chrissyd said:
But NOW the problem is that when I open up my assembly, the assembly shows up as read-only. I can't do saves and I can't check it back into the vault.
You can't open it in SW, or you can't open FROM PDMW??
So, you were able to check it in before no problem, but not now?

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
 
Yes, revs is already set-up in admin. I can open it in SW. The problem is that it is a read-only file. I can't do anything with it and do a save. I could check it in the first time, but now I want to make changes to the part, save, and check it back in again but it won't let me. Is this a SW issue or a PDM issue? I think somehow checking it into the vault made it read-only? I just can't figure what else it could be. This is only a test assembly. I'm trying to work out all the kinks before I put the real stuff into the vault.
 
When you checked it in the first time, did you release ownership? If you released ownership and have,in VaultAdmin, set the option to "Bind Ownership to SWX read/write access" this may be the cause of your problem.

Hope this helps.
 
In the PDMworks options within SolidWorks is the retain ownership check box check under check in?
 
We have "Bind Ownership to SolidWorks read/write access" like dgowans says, checked and we are force to take ownership. Once ownership is taken we have write access.

Can you put a word file where you are putting your SolidWorks files and then make a change to the Word doc and save it?


Bradley
 
Initially, the "Bind Ownership to SolidWorks read/write access" box was checked in Vault-admin, but I don't recall being forced to take ownership. It doesn't seem to matter if the retain ownership box is checked in PDM since the assembly is already read-only. I would assume you can't "retain" ownership of something you don't already own? Oh, I just looked at the PDM "Vault" when I'm in SW...when I right click on the assembly, it shows that I have ownership. So why is it read-only? How can I have owmership and it be read-only at the same time?
 
chrissyd,
I can have ownership and PDM will also say that it is read only, same as you are explaining. Let me explain: I have two PDM log-in accounts one as “Adminbrad” and another one as “Bradley”. I have many times been logged in PDM as “Adminbrad” and tried to modify a model that is owned by Bradley. I do this so that I do not use my admin writes while using my designers account.


Bradley
 
The only time you should be logged in as Admin, is when you are doing admin stuff. You may have some type of circular ref going on.
Also,
Login as Admin, go to Vault Settings, uncheck box "Set filesystem read-only attribute if not owner", until problem fixed.
If you have a lot of users using PDMW, I suggest checking box and leave it.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
 
In VaultAdmin, do you have the upper right check box: "Administrators have RW access to all projects. Don't show Administrators below." unchecked?

And I agree with ctopher and Bradley. You should not use an administrator for designing, only Admin'ing.
 
Actually, I only log-in as me for user and never admin. Admin is only when I'm setting up the vault. That's why it's all such a mystery. Right now I am even the only user. I've listed the other users in the vault, but no one else has logged onto PDM yet. I want to make sure I have everything right, first. Well, at this point I think I'm just going to blow out my test assemblies from the vault and try again. Maybe I just intially did something wrong and it's not very forgiving.
 
chrissyd,
Before you delete everything try this:
In VaultAdmin tool under Projects tab, in Project information, then Project click on the folder that your project is in. Look at Project permissions; do you see your user id with a RW or rw beside your name?
Please excuse the grammar; I wanted to write this before you deleted everything.


Bradley
 
My what? I tried calling the compamy we purchased SolidWorks and PDM from (I won't mention any names) but they have not been very helpful at all since we didn't purchase the service contract. I call tech support to ask questions and they say, "You got the service contract quote, didn't you?" We're a start up company that purchased 5 seats plus 5 floating licenses and we don't want to invest another 4K for service just by prinipal alone. Me personally...I could really use the help setting it up, but it's not my call. Thanks for trying to help. I'll let you know what I figure out.
 
... purchased 5 seats plus 5 floating licenses ...??
You mean one floating license for 5 seats?

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
 
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