A SOLIDWORKS PDM vault has a special Admin user account, with administrative privileges that no other user accounts have.
The Admin user account:
- Is the only active user account in a new vault.
- Cannot be disabled, renamed, or deleted in a vault.
- Is the only user that can search and view files that are in another user's
private state (that is added files that have never been checked in.)
- Can delete a file that is checked out by another user or in another vault
view.
- Can change category of a checked-in file.
- Has access to all search favorites.
To make it easier to troubleshoot permissions issues:
- Assign the Admin user full permissions to all folders and states in a
vault.
- Do not include the Admin user in any group.
Changing the Admin password in the SOLIDWORKS PDM administration tool changes (and sets) the vault-specific
properties for the admin login in the archive server configuration.