A guy I know created a program and is currently reaching out to SolidWorks for a Gold certification. In his program, there is batch processing like #TASK used to do, maybe not as clear, but it’s still being developed.
I asked him to have the program be available in english so that it could be used pretty much everywhere as an alternative to TASK.
AlexLachance just to be sure we are talkIng about the same thing. I think this thread was about “PDM task”, not the normal one outside the pdm vault. the tool must be deployed automatically to each pdm client and user rights, logs, and task list must be manageable from the pdm administration.
Thanks for the reminder, I had in mind this was a topic about #TASK.
A few months later, I’ve finally gotten my simple script to run as intended.
Three hours of initial coding got me about 90% there, the last 10% has taken three months and 40+ hours.
I’m starting to passionately hate PDM.
Learn how to write regular PDM add-ins using the PDM API with C# (VB.NET if you must, but C# is superior). Tasks and Dispatch scripts are just dumbed down layers on top of the API that limit what you can do.
I’ve been doing just that, migrating myself over to VB.net (just because of the learning curve involved - I have a lot of practice with VBA).
This print tool was the first thing I’ve done that way. Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to do more because WatchGuard has torpedoed our entire network. Dealing with the fallout from that uses up all the time I’d otherwise have for porting over the rest of my SW/PDM tools.