API event: check-in

[PeterJelliffe]

Is there an event like "onCheckIn" one can use to activate a macro when you check in a part?

 

[Standing]

I would love to have that one too!

Bradley

 

[TheTick]

That would depend on your PDM system. It wouldn't really be a SW event.

One possibility is to monitor the document's Save and Save-As events to trigger when saved to a certain drive or diectory (or vault).

This is best done as an addin, requiring fully compiled VB or C++. Very impractical to monitor for events with a macro.

Project for turning macros into addins in VB:
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Just how much interest is there in something like this?

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[PeterJelliffe]

Yes, I was just reading up on event notification and we'd need to use Visual C++. Oh well.

 

[TheTick]

I'm on a speed programming binge. You may see something by the end of the weekend.

 

[engAlright]

Are you using PDMWorks advanced server?

If so you can use even triggers to launch an executable or DLL on any number of actions in the vault, including check-in. There is some documentation on MSMQ triggers in the PDMWorks API help.

 

[TheTick]

Better take that back. I know far too little about PDM's other than the one I use (Meridian) to be sure anything I write would be of any use.

 

[dsgnr1]

Peter,
It seems that all participants in this thread have an idea of what your intended macro will do. I am only just beginning writing VB6...transition... VB.net applications. I am curious as to your intent with the macro upon check in.
Could you please explain your intent?

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[ctopher]

I was just thinking that. What exactly do you intend to do with the macro? This may be useful, I have not thought of this...if you can expand on the question the more we can help.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 2005 SP0.1

 

[PeterJelliffe]

I need it as a work around for a bug in SW 2005. There's an option for searching through the external refernce folders when you open a part. We need this checked when someone opens a drawing from the vault. However, the bug causes an error if the option is on and you then try to check an assembly's sub components into the vault.

The error is described here:

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=107332

So I need this option checked upon checking out or right before opening, and I need this option deactivated upon checking in or saving.

I'd love to learn how to program something like this in a .dll but realistically I don't have the time or the resources.

 

[EvanBasalik]

A couple of things:

1) Most decent PDM systems have an API that should allow you to trigger something on a check-in.

2) You do NOT need to use C++ to trigger something on a notify flag - you can use VB6, VB.NET, C#, etc. - pretty much anything that can automate SolidWorks.

Evan T. Basalik, MCSD
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