Update Existing Client Project Application Defaults Databases

Where users are maintaining their own application defaults databases, these standards will not be immediately available to the user because defaults for these standards need to be updated within their application defaults database.

At 12.1.1 an upgrade tool has been provided to allow the MDS administrator to easily update existing standards or add application defaults for any new standards that have been created in the MDS project. This is relevant for users who are upgrading from a previous version of a project or otherwise continuing work on a project that uses a copy of a previous versions MDS/APPDEFAULTS database.

1. The Check MDS Application Defaults tool is a feature in the Utilities menu of the Paragon module and is available to administrators who belong to team CATADMIN.

   

2. If an Administrator wants to check the MDS application defaults database against the standard set of defaults contained in the MDS project click Check Defaults option as previously displayed.

   The tool will check the Administrators defaults database to determine if any default standards are missing or if any updates to existing standards need to be applied. If any updates are found then they will be displayed as follows.

   

   In the example shown we can see that the tool has finished checking the defaults database and determined that there are four missing entries for standards that are available in the MDS catalogue.

3. If the Administrator wants to add application defaults sets for these missing items click Update Defaults option which will automatically create the defaults data in the project defaults database. When it has finished a message window is displayed informing the user that it has successfully created the required number of additional defaults.

   Note: The same process is followed for any updates that need to be made to existing defaults.

   

   A log file is created during the defaults update which gives more detailed information about what has been added to the database. The log file is created in the current %PDMSUSER% directory and is named mdsDefaultsUpdate.log.