Custom Actions

Custom Actions are a collection of features that can be used inside action sets or manual.

Some are standard Autodesk Vault that we now can control where they should run in-side the process and some are unique for Sovelia Vault.

Custom Actions can run manually from the sovelia menu

Add Custom Job

Add Custom Job creates a job that can be picked up from an external program and executed. The job is just a trigger and the functionality need to be implemented into the external program.

Change Category

It does exactly that, it changes category of a file.
There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Change category

Right mouse click the "Change category" node and select "Add new Change Category"

2. Create Action settings

create a new name for the Action and select which category to change it into

Change Lifecycle definition

This action changes lifecycle of a file.
There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add change lifecycle

Right mouse click the "change lifecycle" node and select "Add new change lifecycle definition"

2. Create change lifecycle definition

Create a new name for the Action and select what lifecycle and state to change it to.

Change revision scheme

This action changes Revision Scheme of a file.
There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Change Revision Scheme

Right mouse click the "Change Revision Scheme" node and select "Add new Change Revision Scheme".

2. Create change Revision Scheme definition

Creat a new name for the Action and select what Revision Scheme to change it to.

Copy file

A file can be copies with certain properties to a folder location
There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cannot be changed.

1. Add Copy file

Right mouse click the "Copy file" node and select "Add new Copy file"

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options

• It's possible to create subfolders based on date and Vault properties and also add properties to the file name

Delete attachment

With this action we can delete any attchments.
There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Delete Attachment

Right mouse click the "Delete Attachment" node and select "Add New Delete Attach-ment"

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options

• Select if only the latest revision or not is deleted (True / False)
• Select File extension to delete (Separate multiple extensions with : or All = for everyone)
• Select if you want to delete hodden attachments or no (True / False)

Item linked file Update

This action will walk on the Item BOM and create secondary formats from linked files in the Item. Any file action can run on the file.

See the configuration example here

Folder property to file copy

There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Folder Property to File Copy

Right mouse click the "Folder Property to File Copy" node and select "Add New Folder Property to File Copy".

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options

iLogic

There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add iLogic

Right mouse click the "iLogic" node and select "Add New iLogic"

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options. Add the path to the iLogoc file. Make sure the job processor can find it.

3. Run the rule manually or by an Action Set

About Action sets

Import Dwg Files

This action can import files from folder and change state on the files

Item Property Compliance

We can check for Item property compliance in Items.

Kill process

Sovelia® Vault can kill any processes on the jobprocessor workstation
There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Kill Process

Right mouse click the "Kill Process" node and select "Add New Kill Process"

2. Create Action settings

Creat a new name for the Action and select the options
About Action Execution conditions

Property Compliance

Check compliance can be used to ensure that checker and approver are different in a release process. If not compliant we can stop the process until the requirements are met.

There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Property Compliance

Right mouse click the "Property Compliance" node and select "Add New Property Compliance"

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options
About Action Execution conditions

Revision table

This is a custom Revision table based on a Inventor Drawing Table
There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Revision Table

Right mouse click the "Revision Table" node and select "Add New Revision Table"

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options
About Action Execution conditions

• Create a Inventor table with your columns
• Set the name of the column with the revision
• Set maximum number of rows.

3. Add the row properties from vault

Right mouse click and select "Add new property"

4. Add the properties in the same order as the table

The property name and the row name can be different

Run Script

We can run bat or Powershell scripts inside Sovelia Vault in order to create our own custom jobs. We can send arguments to the file in order to use vault information inside the script.

Send mail by SMTP

This makes it possible to send an email on certain actions in Vault

There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Send mail by SMTP

Right mouse click the " mail by SMTP" node and select "Add New Send mail by SMTP"

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options
About Action Execution conditions

Sync properties

This make it possible to run synchronize properties on certain actions in Vault.
This is the Autodesk Vault SyncProperties functionality, but run from Sovelia® Vault.

There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add SyncProperties

Right mouse click the "SyncProperties" node and select "Add New SyncProperties"

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options
About Action Execution conditions

Update Vault Rev table (Autodesk std)

This is created to update the standard Autodesk Vault Revision table.
There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Update Vault Rev-Table(Autodesk std)

Right mouse click the "Update Vault Rev-Table(Autodesk std)" node and select "Add New Update Vault Rev-Table(Autodesk std)"

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options.
About Action Execution conditions

Note that it is possible to also update the view with Autodesk Vault method from this action.

Sovelia Vault Configuration Example for Vault Revision Table for Inventor Here

Update view?

This is created to update the standard Autodesk View.
There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Update Update View

Right mouse click the "Update View" node and select "Add New Update View".

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options.
About Action Execution conditions

Update Item From Document

This action can update an item from the document.

Drawing List

This action can create a drawing list from an assembly.
The action will collect all parent drawings from the assembly structure and put them in a folder together with a Excel drawing list. This action will run on local machine.

Short video here

There are certain "hardcoded" settings that are pre-set and cant be changed.

1. Add Update Update View

Right mouse click the "Drawing List" node and select "Add New Drawing List".

2. Create Action settings

Create a new name for the Action and select the options. There need to be a folder created in Vault at "$\Configuration\Templates" where the Excel template need to be added.
About Action Execution conditions

3. Set the Options

• Template File Name (without extension) This will be added to the Excel-report file name. ("Model Part Number" - "Template file name .xls")
• Cell for Project Name, if project dialog box are set true it will pop a dialog box to add the Project name.
• Show Project dialogbox?
• Vault Drawing list Folder Name from Property + Revision (Leave Custom Folder Name blank).
• Custom Folder name in Vault to set a custom name for the drawing list folder.
• Cell for Assembly Name in excel template
• Cell for Assembly Part Number in excel template
• Cell for Assembly Revision in excel template
• Cell for Create Date in excel template
• Date format y(year). M(month), d(day). h(hour 12). H(hour 24). m(minute). sfeec-ond) and t(P.M or A.M)
• Cell for Assembly top level item count
• Start list on Column (character), where the list starts in excel
• Start list on row (number) in excel
• Collect properties from linked document? (A tip to add File Extension property to the property list)
• Create shortcuts? create drawing shortcuts in the Drawing list folder.
• Save Excel-report into vault?
• Leave Excel-report open?
• Excel Visible? Open excel when report are created
• Add Shortcuts to Attachment

4. Add properties to the drawing list

• The properties added will be in the same order as the excel sheet columns, note that the names dont have to match the Excel sheet.