Important Hotfix Just Released for Vault 2009
and Productstream 2009 Users!

By Kendred Cooper,
MCAD Solutions Engineer
Hagerman & Company

Attention Vault 2009 & Productstream 2009 users!  A hotfix (TS1093427) has just been released by Autodesk to address some of the searching capability changes that affected Vault 2009. This hotfix addresses other issues reported to Autodesk related to Vault functions, but this notice is specifically regarding the searching changes. A little background of what happened will help explain the impact of this newly released hotfix. With the release of Autodesk Vault 2009, Autodesk instituted a new means of searching the metadata in Vault. Autodesk modeled the searching around a token-based system.

Here’s an example: Filename of ABC123DEF456.dwg. When performing Advanced searches in Vault using the Contains option, if you input the Contains value to = C12, Vault would not see the file ABC123DEF456.dwg. As Vault saw it, the file ABC123DEF456.dwg contained 5 tokens broken down as follows: 1)ABC 2)123 3)DEF 4)456 5)dwg. A token is considered a string of like characters without being separated by spaces or other symbol characters. You could have tried searching for *C12, but Vault would not allow a leading wildcard because in this case, it saw the * as another token. You could input a trailing wildcard asterisk, but it would still not report back the result you desired because it was looking for the “C” as its own standalone token.

So if you did not know the entire token string value, then you might not get the results you were hoping for during a search of the Vault metadata. This newly released hotfix corrects that issue by allowing a leading wildcard symbol (the asterisk *). Using the previous example, ABC123DEF456.dwg, in the Advanced Vault searching, you can now use the Contains option, input a leading and a trailing wildcard asterisk and search for *BC1* or *C12* or *23D* or *23DE* or *EF456*. In any of these example searches, Vault would return the results that ABC123DEF456.dwg fit the criteria of each of the search conditions. This hotfix only applies to 2009 Vault & Productstream installations and should be installed on the server that contains the ADMS program. No updates are required on the user client systems.

Caution: It is imperative that a vault backup (in the ADMS Console) be completed prior to installing any update or hot-fix.

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