Data Standard Administration

Data Standard is a data control feature for the Vault Client, Inventor, and AutoCAD that allows administrators to enforce how users enter Vault data.

For some companies, users have too much freedom regarding Vault data. Users can deviate from company policy by selecting different folders in which to store design data, modifying properties for one file but not another, or ignoring naming schemes in one application but not another.

Data Standard allows administrators to customize dialogs that enforce a standardized workflow for entering Vault data across the Vault Client, AutoCAD, and Inventor applications. Since the Data Standard dialog is fully customizable, administrators can design the workflow that best suits their company's design needs.

Details

The basic features of Data Standard are the same across all supported applications. Start your application, create a new document and start writing or designing your content. After the user first saves a file, the Data Standard dialog appears requesting certain data. Once the user has completed all of the fields, Data Standard generates the file name and location based on the data. The Save button becomes active only when all obligatory fields are complete.

Once the document has been saved, the entered data is mapped to the file's properties. The user does not have to worry about project folders, revising the file, or generating a file name. Data Standard does everything.

Note: See Using Data Standard for more information about the end user's process.

Administration and Customization

Because every customer and every organization is different, Data Standard is highly configurable.

• User interface is 100% user-definable.
• User-defined properties have their own set of rules controlling when a property value is valid or not.
• Control the location (folder) where the file is stored when it is saved.
• Basic scenarios can be configured by editing the text-based xml and xaml files.
• Data Standard uses modern WPF technology for the user interface. This allows you to create very sophisticated solutions (e.g., leveraging third party components).
• Windows PowerShell is used by default to implement the Data Standard logic.
• If your logic is more complex, you can add your own dll written in any .net capable programming language.

Getting Started

The Data Standard Administration documentation consists of three parts.

• Data Standard Configuration

  Provides an overview about all the configuration files. It explains easy configuration tasks which can be done by a system administrator, such as configuring and showing additional properties in the dialogs, configuring custom objects and adding menu items, managing templates, and explaining how localization within Data Standard works.

• Data Standard Customization

  Describes how to implement more advanced dialogs with XAML. Includes examples of different data standard configurations.

• Data Standard API Reference

  Describes how to customize business logic using PowerShell. The section also contains an API References.

Data Standard Tutorial

• Vault Data Standard Tutorial

  Provides introduction and hands-on-exercises to key users and Vault administrators about "Getting started with Data Standard" and "Data Standard Customization".