The Behaviors tab on the Vault Settings dialog contains options for editing lifecycle definitions and managing revisions, administrating categories and rules, creating and modifying properties, defining customized numbering schemes, and assigning colors in reports.
Access the Behaviors Tab on the Vault Settings Dialog
- Click Tools
Administration Vault Settings.
- In the Vault Settings dialog box, select the Behaviors tab.
Lifecycles
Products have defined lifecycles from inception through production. You can edit and assign lifecycle definitions and configure state comments, security, and transitions on the Lifecycles Definitions dialog box.
Revisions
Revision schemes allow you to manage assign sequence values, formats, and comments to files and items that have been revised.
Categories
Category management provides a way to group properties logically and assign sets of behaviors and rules to one or more files or items.
Rules
Rules allow you to automatically assign categories to files or items with particular properties.
Properties
Click Properties to manage user-defined properties. All of the extracted properties being tracked by the vault can be managed using the Property Definitions dialog box.
- Click Properties to display the Property Definitions dialog box.
Data Card
Click Data Card to configure the data card layout in Inventor, including the number of pages and the properties displayed on each page.
- Click Data Card to display the Configure Data Card dialog box.
Using Date Only While Updating Properties
Check Using Date Only While Updating Properties to exclude the time when updating Date properties. For example, if you map the Date File Created property to your title block, with this option checked the result could be 5/17/2017, while with the option cleared the result would be 5/17/2017 11:11:10 PM.
Automatic Numbering
Numbering schemes used in the Rename wizard can be defined using the Numbering Schemes dialog box.
- Click Define to create and manage numbering schemes.
Report Management
Color assignments for data mapping and reports are configured on the Assign Color dialog box.
- Click Define to manage color assignments.