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Future of the Aras Community Forum - Any Insights?

AngelaIp — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:52:23 GMT

Hi community,

I’ve heard rumors that Aras is planning to move the forum to a different platform or provider.

Does anyone know what changes are actually planned as part of this transition?
For example:

Will the forum remain publicly accessible, or be limited to subscribers only?
Will existing content and links still be available?

From what I’ve seen in Aras blog articles, the forum has become a valuable resource - especially because it’s well indexed by search engines. You can just Google (or use AI...) and find answers to almost anything.

That wouldn’t work anymore if the forum becomes restricted or goes behind a login wall.

If it’s just a technical platform switch and everything else stays the same - great, no problem at all.
But if there are major changes planned, I think the community should know in advance.

If this change does happen in a more disruptive way, I personally might consider switching over to the Reddit r/ArasInnovator forum instead.

I’ve tried to get some insights directly from Aras, but as always... they like to keep things mysterious. Or maybe everyone’s just on summer vacation... 😉

Thanks in advance if anyone has more information!

Do I have to give external users "get" permission for an ItemType when using a MAC policy to restrict access?

AngelaIp — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:10:20 GMT

Hi community,

let´s assume we have a lot of regular Parts in Innovator. An external user now shall have access to a limited amount of these Parts. An additional property specifies which parts he is allowed to see.

This scenario is a perfect job for a MAC policy. MAC policies allow to restrict the user access based on the property.

But I noticed that the external user still needs to be added to the regular permission that is used for Parts (e.g. Permission "Released Part"). Is this really necessary?

The MAC rule it self works fine. But only if the external user is part of the "Released Part" permission. Otherwise he will see nothing.
But I would prefer to avoid adding the user to this general permission.

Reason: When the external user is part of the regular permission, he could see all items by default. Only after the MAC rule is activated, the item access is restricted. But what if we upgrade and forget to reactive the MAC rule? Will the external user see everything until we notice our mistake?

I would prefer things the other way round. The external user must not see any Part UNTIL the MAC policy activated.

Is this behavior possible?

Thanks in advance!

Angela

Installing Aras Innovator and SQL?

H.Sakamoto@HTC — Thu, 29 May 2025 10:27:28 GMT

I have a question about installing Aras Innovator and setting up the environment. When I checked the installation guide, there was no mention of SQL Server during installation. Please tell me what I should do before installation and what I should do after installation. I believe that Aras Innovator indirectly manipulates SQL.
There was a mention of SQL during installation in the Japanese blog.

Reference URL

aras.com/.../install-2023-release

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Scheduled/Automated Tasks

henry_yc — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:57:34 GMT

Hello all,

We are currently using Version 11 SP 9 of Aras Innovator. Is there an inbuilt way to schedule/automate tasks and activities? An example of such task would be to schedule automated Excel extracts at the end/start of every month.

Thanks very much!

What is the best way to secretly observe my users (to see if they use specific ItemTypes)?

AngelaIp — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:26:27 GMT

Hi community,

I have a couple of custom Federated ItemTypes and TOC views that I designed many years ago for certain data renderings. Some of them are very old and I don´t even know if anyone still use them.

I either want to update the views to more modern UI and coding standards OR delete them if they aren´t needed anymore.

What’s the best way to find out which ItemTypes are being used?

I want to avoid to make a "survey", cause we all know how that ends: The users who matter won’t answer, and the rest will just get confused.😂

My favorite solution: User select certain elements in the TOC -> a new System or server log entry will be created.

Unfortunately the limiting factor for my favorite solution is the current used Innovator 12SP7. The TOC in this EOL version isn´t CUI based yet. CUI would make the task much easier to solve.

I want to avoid to customize the TOC logic in the codetree just for this use case. How would you solve this task?

Thanks for any idea!

Angela