• 9 Reasons to Upgrade to Aras Innovator Release 14+

    We are excited by all the new functionality and features to the Aras Innovator ® platform that are available with our regular release schedule. At ACE 2024 , our Product Design Manager, Kenny Sperling, ran a great session about all the UI/UX changes to…
  • ACE 2024: Reflections on My First Tech Summit

    I was recently lucky enough to attend my first Aras Community Event or ACE. ACE 2024 took place in Fort Worth, Texas, from March 4-7, with a special invite-only event on March 4. The Tech Summit made its return this year after a hiatus since 2019, providing…
  • Code Snippet: Generic, Reusable Code to Get All Identities In a Group

    Hello everyone, Here is a code snippet to retrieve all identities in a identity (group) recursively. As I faced this requirement multiple times, and Innovator not having a standard function for it, I decided to create it myself. //*************…
  • CUI background Page Customization

    As we have mentioned many times in past blog posts, the beauty of Aras Innovator is the ability to customize any aspect of the UI. We can accomplish this through the CUI (configurable user interface), which we will cover in this blog. In recent releases…
  • Designing a Dynamic Date Calculator

    When querying for information from Aras Innovator, it is sometimes desired to query for information relative to today's date. For example, we may wish to find a Part that a coworker told us was created yesterday, or we may want to find which Parts are…
  • Hiring programmer/analyst in Mass

    Anyone New England with Aras programming skills looking for a job? We are currently hiring a programmer/analyst and Aras is one of our core systems. Good opportuinity to expand knowledge from PLM to ERP within a global business. careers.murata-ps…
  • Working with Toolbars and CUI

    Configurable User Interface forms a remarkably complete package for customizing the layout of Aras Innovator, and in this article we’ll take a look at working with toolbars using CUI. The toolbars are present at the top of many pages and forms, providing…
  • Filter ItemType properties to "Non Core" only

    if you are an Aras administrator or developer and often work with ItemTypes and their properties you know that each ItemType has many "Core" properties, such as "config_id", "created_on" and so on. Regular ItemType has 23 such properties and Relationship…
  • Technical Documentation Improvements

    Creating and maintaining technical documentation is an ongoing process, which means learning tools to make that process more efficient pays off soon. Aras Innovator has a robust set of technical documentation tools as part of a common configuration. Today…
  • TIP: How to use ampersand in an AML, WHERE statement

    Hi Team, I am compiling an AML dynamically to query data in our Aras. The challenge is that some people have been creating documents with the "&", ampersand character in the document names. Doing a "WHERE" in the AML is a challenge, because one…
  • Using Query Definitions in Your Method Code

    You may have seen Query Definitions in a Tree Grid View demo, but did you know you can also use Query Definitions (QD) to define reusable queries for your Aras method code? This blog post walks through the Identity Map community project and demonstrates…
  • Creating Custom Conversion Server Configurations

    The Conversion Server, despite its name, is a great tool that can be leveraged for time consuming processes and not just file conversion tasks. This means that it can be used for really any asynchronous process. This is best used for tasks that may…
  • Employee Spotlight: Skyler Crossman, Software Engineer

    Our Employee Spotlight Series highlights employees from around the world to showcase the awesome talent and personality that makes up Aras. Next up: Skyler! Read on to get to know more about him. Where did you grow up? Middletown, Vermont What was…
  • UX - CSS Pseudo Selectors - Indicate Required and More!

    One thing that irks me is submitting a form that isn't complete and not having an indication of what is missing until after attempted submission. We could color all the labels differently than the non-required, but I really wanted an asterisk in red…
  • Item Views with CUI

    The Configurable User Interface (CUI) is one of the many ways Aras Innovator continues to make itself adjustable and customizable. You don’t need long development cycles to tweak how things are laid out in your environment, and rearranging things can…