ENOVIA SmarTeam has a number of integrations to third party software applications like CAD, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel. Occasionally, after installing SmarTeam Editor with the Microsoft Excel Add-in or PLMDB Add-in for Excel, the add-ins may not appear when loading Microsoft Excel. This can happen to either add-in, or both at the same time. Luckily, one solution to this problem is relatively simple – although it does involve the Windows Registry. Continue Reading

Excel can be very helpful in cases where you need to create a custom list in SharePoint and want to populate that list quickly, and perhaps using some advanced logic. If you have an Excel workbook with your data in it there is no need to manually create a SharePoint list and manually enter this data. You can port this data over to SharePoint from right inside of Excel. Continue Reading
Everyone knows Microsoft Excel. Well, everyone knows of Excel. Very few people, though, realize that it is a fully functional data tool with over 340 functions ranging from math to text to counting to searching and on and on. Continue Reading
SolidWorks Corporation released a minor service pack, 4.1 on August 10th. A minor release is never a good thing. If you have an earlier version of SolidWorks software and are having trouble with Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Office, Windows Vista, or other 64-bit applications, then you need this service pack update. Continue Reading
Microsoft recently announced Office 2010, and is actively touting its benefits to the IT world. Although many will bemoan this information as marketing hype about interface changes and inconsequential feature additions, there are some significant additions in the Office productivity suite that merit discussion in the PLM community. In particular, deeper integration with Microsoft SharePoint and browser-enabled versions of key Office applications are two significant functionalities worth mentioning.
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Have you ever seen a message similar to this while working with the SolidWorks Integration for SmarTeam enabled?

In this article, we will explain some of the reasons when and why this message is displayed, what happens when you click the Yes, No, or Cancel buttons, and some tips on how to avoid the message.
When the SolidWorks Integration is enabled, SmarTeam monitors many of the events that occur behind the scenes. One of those events is when a referenced file is about to be opened in SolidWorks. Continue Reading
So you want to roll out SharePoint to help collaborate on documents and data. You have heard that Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is free and included as part of Windows Server 2003. From this, it sounds like you can just have IT install it, provide you the URL and you will be all set, however, that may or may not be the case.
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