Basics of Aras Mark-up Language and NASH

Aras Innovator has an underlying mark-up language it uses for all of its database transactions. The language is referred to as Aras Mark-up Language, or AML. Aras also provides a sandbox interface for developing and running AML, called NASH. Here’s a short primer for getting familiar with AML and NASH.  Continue Reading

Utilizing the ShareVis Audit Trail

So the plan is to use ShareVis for a while, review the audit trails of your processes and make some improvements.  You’ll continue these steps for the foreseeable future in an effort to continually improve your processes.  But how will you collect your process audit trails?  Once a process is complete, ShareVis displays a complete, very verbose history on the screen.  However, you need this data in more of a database or spreadsheet format in order to glean meaning from the raw data.  Continue Reading

PLM-ERP Communication with ENOVIA SmarTeam

The automated exchange of data between a PLM system and an ERP system is a goal many organizations spend a considerable amount of effort trying to achieve.  Most of the time, there are significant customizations involved with this effort.  ENOVIA SmarTeam’s Engineering Express (SNE) solution provides provides some out-of-the-box tools to help you achieve PLM-ERP communication with very little (if any) customization.

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64-bit Oracle Support for ENOVIA SmarTeam

The population of 64-bit PCs has steadily increased since their mainstream introduction in 2003, and ENOVIA SmarTeam has supported the use of 64-bit machines since V5R18 SP1.  However, saying that a client-server application supports 64-bit machines can mean a number of different things.  Let’s take a closer look at how 64-bit Oracle is supported in an ENOVIA SmarTeam environment.  Continue Reading

Troubleshooting a SmarTeam Client Connection

ENOVIA SmarTeam’s client-server architecture relies on several key connections for successful client operation.  When one of these connections is blocked or otherwise unavailable, the client will be unable to login to SmarTeam.  Fortunately, most client connection problems can be quickly identified.  Read on to learn more about a few common issues and tips on resolving them.  Continue Reading

Moving SQL Databases and Retaining Users

If you’ve ever tried to pack up and move a SQL Server database from one computer to another, you’ve probably noticed that the permissions and users won’t line up between the two machines.  Even if you create accounts with the same usernames on the target machine, the users from one SQL Server are not recognized by the other.  As a result, you receive error messages like, ‘Login failed for user USERNAME’.  Continue Reading

Troubleshooting EPDM Permissions

Anyone who works with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) knows that there are multiple factors that play a role in user permissions. Sometimes it can be difficult to determine the kind of permission to apply to achieve a desired result or to find the setting that is causing an undesired behavior. So let’s dig in to the EPDM security model and take a look at the different criteria that EPDM uses to provide access to files.  Continue Reading