In our previous blog posts on best practices (found here and here), we covered multiple ways to improve the performance of your code by reducing the number of calls to and from the database. We are going to take a bit of deviation away from improving performance in this post and instead focus on another key area of development: maintenance. When writing maintainable code, there are some different goals that we want to…
The Simulation Management (SM) application in Aras Innovator lets users centrally manage simulation inputs and results, providing better visibility and access to simulation data across the enterprise. The item within Aras Innovator that allows users to manage these input and output artifacts is known as a Simulation Study. These Simulation Study items are comprised of individual tasks and various steps taken in external…
The Aras Testing Automation Framework (TAF) is a powerful tool, but one that requires some technical acumen to wield. Based on Selenium, developers and testers will need time to familiarize themselves with this environment. While documentation is included with every TAF release, we here at Aras Labs thought we’d highlight some of our more commonly used commands.
These examples are drawn from TAF 1.4, run against…
In our previous blog post on server-side best practices, we shared some tips on how to improve the performance of your custom functionality by focusing on two key goals.
In this blog post, we'll cover a few more tips to help you achieve these goals and keep your Aras Innovator instance running as smoothly as possible…
Aras Technical Documentation, or Tech Docs for short, is Aras Innovator’s state of the art authoring tool to manage, create, and maintain documentation and its contents from images, text, tables, and lists. The Tech Doc framework consists of an intuitive editor allowing users to author product documentation such as catalogs and manuals.
In addition to the generic document elements such as tables and graphics users…
This post will cover the basics of Workflows, an organizational tool of businesses everywhere. We’ll go over creating a Workflow map, adding steps to it, and assigning it to an item. At the end, we’ll talk a little about creating tasks for the Workflow we’ve created. Once you finish, you’ll know how to make Workflows for your own organization, and will be able to customize to your heart’s content.…
The Aras Testing Automation Framework (TAF) is a framework to facilitate- you guessed it- the automatic testing of your Aras Innovator instance, available to our TAF subscribers. TAF templates are designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio, so you’ll need that installed. The best usage of automated testing is to make sure that your applications and instance continues to perform as you expect it to, even as you alter…
The next installment of our Application Overview series is Component Engineering (CE) within Aras Innovator. CE ensures users have full management and tracking of Manufacturer Parts, including the ease of selection and swapping of components.
CE within Aras Innovator simplifies electronic component selection by allowing Engineers and Procurement Specialists instant access to current technical data statuses on hundreds…