PDMLink Solutions: Does anyone have experience with, or a script to move large numbers of EPMDocumen

[AL_ANDERSON]

PDMLink Solutions:

Does anyone have experience with, or a script to move large numbers of
EPMDocument and SubFolder objects?

We have a PDMLink 9.1 M040 system that manages Pro/E CAD data (EPMDocument
objects).

In November, we plan to move our Windchill 8 data into that PDMLink
system.

Our plan is to use the existing CAD libraries for our parts, documents,
and changes in Windchill 8 using extract and load tools that we are
building.

However, we want to move all of our CAD folders and objects from their
current Context into a "/CAD" subfolder in the same context. Basically,
all the existing data in each library needs to go "down" one level.

Using the out of the box multi-select, copy/paste, we can do this
operation, but it takes hours to move the volumes of data we have in just
one subfolder in one library. Therefore, we need a programmatic way to
move these folders and EPMDocuments.

Has anyone done this kind of mass-move before? Do you have any scripts or
programs that were useful that you could share?

Thank you.

Albert Anderson
Solar Turbines Incorporated
San Diego, CA

[VincentQuesnoit]

Albert,

You do not need to move all the data, only the highest level sub-folders they are in, provided you don't have everything locateddirectly at the root. I guess moving a folder does not physically move the datait contains, only the references.

Or am I missing something ?

Vincent

In Reply to Albert Anderson:

PDMLink Solutions:

Does anyone have experience with, or a script to move large numbers of
EPMDocument and SubFolder objects?

We have a PDMLink 9.1 M040 system that manages Pro/E CAD data (EPMDocument
objects).

In November, we plan to move our Windchill 8 data into that PDMLink
system.

Our plan is to use the existing CAD libraries for our parts, documents,
and changes in Windchill 8 using extract and load tools that we are
building.

However, we want to move all of our CAD folders and objects from their
current Context into a "/CAD" subfolder in the same context. Basically,
all the existing data in each library needs to go "down" one level.

Using the out of the box multi-select, copy/paste, we can do this
operation, but it takes hours to move the volumes of data we have in just
one subfolder in one library. Therefore, we need a programmatic way to
move these folders and EPMDocuments.

Has anyone done this kind of mass-move before? Do you have any scripts or
programs that were useful that you could share?

Thank you.

Albert Anderson
Solar Turbines Incorporated
San Diego, CA