Revision Scheme
On the VaultAdmin Revision Scheme
tab, define the structure of revision designations for all documents in
the vault. Enable control of revision tables in SolidWorks drawings on
the VaultAdmin Revision
Table tab.
Workgroup PDM provides a default revision scheme.
Primary |
Separator |
Secondary |
Separator |
Tertiary |
Working copy |
Range |
|
Range |
|
|
character |
A-Z |
- (minus sign) |
01-99 |
|
|
+ (plus sign) |
A colored background in the
boxes indicates active settings.
Only uppercase letters are allowed for revision letters.
The symbols * \ / :
? "
< >
are not allowed in any part of a revision name. The restricted symbols
are the characters that are not allowed in Windows file names. The period
(.) is allowed as a separator,
but not in any other field of a revision scheme.
Spaces can appear in list items (In Work,
for example) and as a separator, but not as a Working
copy. Blank list items are not allowed.
The vault retains a copy
of every revision except for Working
copy revisions. Check-ins of Working
copy revisions are recorded on the History
tab of Document Information.
Documents can only go
forward in a revision scheme (for example, from A
to B), never backward (for example,
from DEV to PRE
in the Primary listing above).
You can change a revision
scheme at any point. Documents already in the Vault are not affected.
Documents checked in subsequently go forward using the new revision scheme.
To specify a revision scheme:
Choose from the selections described below,
then click Apply.
Revision information
You are
not required to set all of the revision levels.
The matching From
and To columns in a range must
be the same type (that is, alphabetic or numeric). The difference between
the From and To
values must be positive. For example, an alphabetic range can be from
A to Z but not from A to A or from B to A. When you set a range of numbers,
the beginning and ending values must have the same number of digits. For
example, for a range of 1 to 99, type 01 and 99.
Listing.
To use a list, select Listing
and type a listing label (such as Development, Release Candidate, and
so on).
If the range is not sequential (such as X,
A, B, C), use Listing. For a long
listing, create the list in a word processor such as Notepad, then copy
and paste the list into the Workgroup PDM Listing
box.
Separator.
Type a Separator, such as a dash
(-), to distinguish between the Primary
and Secondary schemes, and the
Secondary and Tertiary
schemes. If you do not specify a separator, the revision numbers are adjacent;
for example, A9.
Working copy.
Type a character to distinguish the Working
copy document.
Check Boxes
You can select one (but not both) of the
following options.
Sequential revisioning.
Cycle through revisions rather than combining them to make a single revision.
For example, without sequential revisioning, a Primary
range of A-Z
and a Secondary range of 1-9
produces revisions A1, A2,
A3, up to Z9.
With sequential revisioning, the revisions are A,
B, C,
up to Z, followed by 1
to 9. Any separators that you
defined are not used.
Last revision
type optional. Allow users to omit the last revision type. For
instance, if you set the Primary,
Secondary, and Tertiary
levels, users are not required to use the Tertiary
level. A sequence could be: A1a,
A1b, A1c,
A2, A2a,
A2b, A2c,
A3, and so on.
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