ARAS recently released Self-Service Reporting in ARAS Innovator in response to power users who are often required to produce routine and ad hoc management reports. Typically this requires the involvement of an IT specialist to create and run the report, which can result in delays. ARAS has addressed this need for Aras Subscribers with fully featured self-service reporting functionality that puts report creation at the user’s fingertips.
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What is XML? Maybe you’ve found yourself asking that question at some point in time. To some, it’s just another meaningless acronym. To others, whether knowingly or not, it’s a key technology that they use every day. Today we’re going to give you the skinny on XML. Not just that, we’re also going to fill you in on how you can benefit from it, and how it affects your work life. Continue Reading
Workflow processes in Aras Innovator can have their own metadata (in addition to tasks, voting details, an electronic signature, and the metadata of routed content). This workflow-specific metadata is in the form of activity variables, which can be defined by the administrator on a per-process-type basis. Aras Innovator workflow activity variables can be used for dynamic user assignment (to workflows), for updating protected/read-only fields, and for many other needs. In this post, we’ll show how to use an activity variable to update a read-only (protected) field, and even share the source code needed to enable this.
The underpinnings of ENOVIA V6 and the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform (3DXP) can be quite complex at first glance, but once you have the lay of the land, it is evident that MQL is a foundational component worth understanding. There are many important things to know about MQL (Matrix Query Language), but one not-so-obvious element is the inclusion or exclusion of triggers. If you’re relatively new to ENOVIA V6, the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, or MQL, read on to understand the relevance of triggers to MQL and automation in 3DXP and ENOVIA V6.
At Razorleaf, we’re all about innovative process solutions, and one of our consultants, Dennis Lindinger, recently proved that point. Dennis built custom hardware AND software for Aras Innovator to highlight the power of special purpose Innovator clients. The real-world usage scenario at work here is for accessing shop floor work instructions and logging serialized assembly processes. Keep reading to learn more about what our resident Maker, Dennis, created and how you can leverage it. Continue Reading
BasicScript is a very useful tool for prototyping ENOVIA SmarTeam customizations and for writing short, focused scripts or macros. The BasicScript Editor is installed with every Windows client of SmarTeam and has a simple interface that even non-developers find accessible – it’s sort of like the VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) of the SmarTeam world. But even those that have worked with the tool for years find something new in it from time to time. Here’s exactly that kind of nugget: programming a simple status bar or progress meter in BasicScript. Continue Reading
As developers, we’re known to tweak things to get them just exactly like we want them. So here’s a quick tip on getting your own menu entry in Windows 7 context menus, and some sample code that makes a directory listing for a selected folder. With this sample code, you can choose any Windows folder and create a text file listing of all files and subfolders contained within the selected folder. Continue Reading