With the release of Aras Innovator ® 28, we’re delivering a new Platform Component, Reporting. Reporting allows for an increase in collaboration and traceability throughout the platform. This tool allows you to easily share detail-oriented views, which…

The Event Handling Framework (EHF) is Aras Innovator®’s latest platform component addition to our suite of tools. EHF brings new functionality and features enabling administrators to configure subscriptions describing events and how those events should…

If you tried to perform a routine process with your product lifecycle management (PLM) software, made decisions without accurate data, or collaborated across departmental boundaries using meetings and spreadsheets you’ve likely experienced some level…

In previous blog posts, we've covered how to add custom menu items like buttons and shortcuts using the Configurable User Interface (CUI) data model introduced in 11.0 SP7. Using this same data model, it's also possible to add menu items that are specific…

If you’ve been doing research into PLM Software, one word will come up a lot : workflow. Automated workflow, manual workflow, subflow…etc. All business have workflows, from a mom-and-pop store to an aerospace R&D company. If you have a complex, or even…

Whether your business is big or small, a company's data is always an essential component in operating successfully. In this blog, we will explore how to backup and restore your Aras Innovator databases using Microsoft's SQL Server Management Studio tool…

Last year, Microsoft published the Monaco Editor , the browser-based text editor responsible for many of the cool features inside of Visual Studio Code . The Monaco Editor offers many of the features we've come to expect from browser-based editors such…

Modal dialogs are frequently used to collect user input throughout the Aras Innovator client - in both "out of the box" and custom use cases. When using the standard modal dialog function, the size and position of the dialog is fixed. However, users may…

Actions are one of the most common ways users interact with data in Aras, whether from the main grid, item forms, or main menu. While creating custom actions is fairly straightforward, creating multi-select item actions requires the use of a built-in…

Content generators are server-side methods that create content when a specific schema element is initialized. These methods can be used to generate dynamic content, such as the table of data displayed in a default ItemInfo element. The first example below…

In previous releases of Aras Innovator, it was possible to download multiple files to a client machine at one time. However, with the move away from .NET Controls in 11.0 SP9, access to the client's file system became limited. In today's blog post, we…

A common use case is to have certain fields on a form be dependent on another field. In order to avoid confusion, you may want to enable or disable these fields unless a certain value is selected. Today we'll cover how to dynamically enable and disable…

Two powerful solutions were introduced into the Aras Platform in 11.0 SP10: Query Builder (QB) and Tree Grid View (TGV). QB is a tool for building powerful, reusable AML queries using a graphical user interface. TGV displays the results of one of these…

In previous blogs posts, we've learned how to add a new button to our menus as well as add new keyboard shortcuts . Both of these lessons are great when we want to allow our users to perform new kinds of actions, but how do we prevent our users from performing…

There are times when only a handful of items make sense for a specific Item property. In these cases, you'll likely want to avoid any potential confusion and display only those items in the results of the Search Dialog. Today we'll be going over an example…

"Customize don't compromise" is one of our mottoes at Aras. We want our partners and customers to feel and understand that our solution is right for adapting a model to the customer's needs. We don't avoid standards. We try to implement as many business…

More and more customers want to operate their own DevOps processes, and whenever you do recurrent data migration tasks it's handy to have easy access to the SOAP/web service interface to send AML. Today we have our own interface embedded in Aras which…

Design teams across all major industries struggle with managing the ever-increasing complexity of modern products. In response, many have pursued the model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methodology which originated in Aerospace & Defense. While MBSE…

There are times when you want to ensure that the values entered for a property follow a specific format. The most common example of this would be ensuring that phone numbers have the correct number of digits. Today we'll be covering how you can accomplish…

PolyItems are great mainly when you want to build a relationship as a single ItemType/RelationshipType but connecting one source to multiple targets. This is the setup for the Deliverable ItemType in Aras Innovator which is configured as a PolyItem. You…

As you may have read in our recent blog post , Aras Labs is participating in Hacktoberfest 2017! The purpose of this post is to cover how exactly you can go about making contributions to Aras Community Projects. Introduction Community Projects are…

We've previously covered how you can utilize CUI to add custom buttons to toolbars . However, you can also take advantage of CUI to add keyboard shortcuts for more advanced users. In this blog post, we will cover how to add a shortcut to select all of…

In a another blog post , we covered how to open dialogs within Aras Innovator using custom forms and HTML pages. However, Aras Innovator also supports a number of built-in dialogs that offer common functionality. A previous blog post also covers how to…

Here are a few tips and best practices to follow when creating an Aras Community Project. Do: Include Your Source Code All Aras Community Projects must include the original source code. For example if you create an external application that interacts…

PLM Perspectives from GE Minds + Machines 2017 GE Minds + Machines is billed as “the Premier Industry Internet Event,” and that tag is not far off. Having attended in previous years as an analyst at LNS Research, I had a different perspective this year…