PDMlink and designated proe dimensions, Intralink vs PDMlink ?

[ejhlti]

Here is an issue were now faced with using PDMlink (9.0 - M050). As an example, a user creates a proe model. Rather than use the default proe dimensions (d1, d2, d3 etc), they rename the dimensions to more recognizable names like length, width and height. These renamed dimensions are also designated in proe. In Intralink 3.x, if you had corresponding Intralink parameters length, width and height, the proe dimensions would be passed to the Intralink database, so when you look in Intralink you can see these dimensions. Well looks like the rules have changed with PDMlink, it no longer likes to deal with renamed proe dimensions. Using the same example (attributes length, width and height exist in PDMlink), if a user has a proe model with renamed dsimenions, the parameters wont get passed from Proe to PDMlink. When the proe prt is saved, the attributes disappear altogether in pdmlink. When saving in pdmlink, event manager gives warning that dimensions d1, d2, d3 are not pdmlink attributes. Keep in mind the proe model no longer has dimensions d1, d2, d3 etc, they were renamed length, width and height. So far only solution is to rename all proe dimensions back to original name and set relations like length=d1 etc. Has anyone else out there come across this issue ? Moving forward its one issue to change this, but to have to go back and modify every existing file to work this way is hardly an answer. Appreciate any other ideas.

[Avinash]

Hi

Here is one of the way to add proe paramaters into Pdmlink,

Create this attributes in Attribute Manager and then add it into EPMDocument type from Type Manager.

After adding attribites to EPMDoc type, you can see designated parameters/attributes in Pdmlink.
You can see only those attributes/parameters (in pdmlink) which you have added in EPMDoc type and designated in proe.

Thanks,

Avinash

[fklink]

Ed,

Did you create the PDMLink attributes (it seems not). ?
You have to do that at the site leve, in the Utilities page, through the Attribute definition manager link.

Then Intralink will be abale to map them.

François

[ejhlti]

To clarify the situation, all our previous Intralink attributes were set up accordinglingly in pdmlink.

Looking at imported data from Intralink, the objects that have renamed dimensions in Intralink appear correctly in pdmlink, however if they are modified, the attributes for the particular object no longer show up in pdmlink. This occurs only on attributes that come from renamed proe dimensions. Other attributes we used in Intralink like title, material, drawn_by, etc all work properly. If the renamed dimensions are changed back to their original names and then a relation created, the attibutes then work correctly in pdmlink.