Login | SmarTeam does not support the use of "Mandatory Users" of Windows. Therefore, you must use Standard Users.
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Installation | When performing the SmarTeam - Editor installation, the user is prompted to install for "everyone who uses this computer" or "Me Only". However, the Me Only option is not supported and SmarTeam will not work properly if this option is selected.
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Queries | When running the Export tool and selecting a query based on a Query by Example (QBE) with multiple conditions, several error messages may be displayed the the Export operation will not run.
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Admin Console | In some cases, an error message may appear after opening and closing applications in the Admin Console.
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PLM DB | From V5R20 SP3, a new CD of the Demo Environment installation is published as CD3. To install the new demo environment, you must first uninstall the demo environment of V5R20.
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Menu / Toolbar | The Remote copy to\from working directory option is not available in the Administrator Options - Life Cycle window. This option is no longer in use. |
Form Designer | It is not possible to define a label and image controls at the top of a panel control in the Form Designer.
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Administration Guide | The FTS script generator provides a script "as is". If there are locks in the database that prevent you from running the script, you should fix the script locally. If you need to delete the indexes, you should launch SmartDBRepairing.exe and run Repair Indexes. |
Sequence designer | When defining a numeric sequence with Pad and clicking the Increment button, the sequence value is incorrect. To ensure that sequence incrementation works properly, after setting the Pattern definition, click OK and then click Edit to open the sequence for editing again.
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Security | When an object is linked to a secured Folder or Restricted Project, its security context is updated and the Modified by and Modification Date fields are updated as well.
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System Configuration | System configuration editor search works only the second time.
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Admin Console | In some cases, an error message may appear after closing the Admin Console. This message can be ignored.
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Profile Card | The Refresh behavior of the profile card was changed in V5R19 in order to improve performance.
According to the new behavior, when an object is opened in a specific view, its data is created in the dynamic cache on the client. The next time that the object is opened, the system retrieves the data from the cache and not from the database. Modifications to the profile card that were made by a different user are displayed in the view only after you perform a Refresh (F5) operation.
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Queries | In the Search by Attribute window, the Profile Card's tabs cannot be moved.
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SmartDbExplorer | It is not possible to translate the Database password for dialog box in SmartDbExplorer utility.
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LC Rules Setup | When the useViewSecurity key (located in the smarteam.std.lifecycle.config file) is set to TRUE, child objects are not displayed in the tree of the checked-out parent if the user does not have permission to view these objects.
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Security | When an object is linked to a secured Folder or Restricted Project, its security context is updated and the Modified by and Modification Date fields are updated as well.
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Menu / Toolbar | SmartFlow menu item
After running the Data Model Designer (DMD) on a customer DB which includes SmartFlow in the main menu, Workflow is added to the main menu. Using the SmarTeam Menu Editor, the SmartFlow menu item should be removed and ordered manually from the system, user and/or customer's menu profiles.
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Menu / Toolbar | View menu items
After upgrading of the product from previous releases, the View > Define Views and View > Run View menu items should be removed manually.
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Licensing | Each tool that is not part of the Admin Console requires an Editor license.
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Installation | SmarTeam supports the Microsoft Run As capability. After installing any SmarTeam application or service pack while using the Run As utility, the same user login provided with the Run As utility should be used again after rebooting the computer.
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Transfer ownership | When transferring ownership of an object in a shared workspace, the Created By attribute of previous revisions is modified and displays the name of the new owner.
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Project Manager | During a Save operation within a SmarTeam Integration, when selecting a destination project, the pull-down list that shows the project tree in the Project Manager window is small. To find the desired project, scroll vertically or horizontally.
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Dependencies Between Mechanisms | When adding specific mechanisms, additional mechanisms may be added automatically. For example, when adding the CATIA mechanism, the Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, Inventor, Autodesk Mechanical Desktop, Microsoft Word, Solid Edge, SolidWorks and Pro/ENGINEER mechanisms are added automatically and are selected in the Available Mechanisms list.
For more information, refer to SmarTeam - Editor Online Help, Data Model Designer (DMD) section, which contains updated information on dependencies between mechanisms and includes a complete list of Domain Level behavior dependencies.
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API | When working with SmarTeam API from MTA threads, a switch to an STA host thread is created and the com object will run on this thread. The switch occurs each time you access the SmarTeam API (STA com object). The switch is not limited to threads created from ASP or remoting, and occurs in any MTA thread.
To prevent the switch from occurring, use ASPCompat while running from IIS, or create the SmarTeam com objects from the STA threads.
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Script Maintenance | New SmSession When using a script in SmartBasicScript Editor which needs to create another SmSession, it is recommended to use the following procedure:
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System Configuration | Configuration Editor settings Refer to the Excel file attached in the Foundation Administration Guide to see the current list of Configuration Editor settings. |
Authentication manager | It is recommended to run the Authentication Manager in Windows XP on client machines. |
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None
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Lifecycle | In a lifecycle window, when you perform modifications on a structure after propagation was defined, the propagation operation is replaced by the later operation(s). This is not reflected in the GUI. |
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Perform
refresh on the structure tree, then perform the lifecycle operation.
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Tools | AutoCAD drawings are not converted to .cgm format. |
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None
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Installation | When performing a "modify installation" of SmarTeam - Editor and changing the core server of SmarTeam, the change is not saved. |
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To change the core server, update the server name in the |
Web Browser | Objects are added in the Recent Objects pane at the end of an Add operation only if you click OK or Cancel at the end of the operation.
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Lifecycle | When you copy a file in SmarTeam - Web Editor and the "For Copied Files" option is not selected in the Advanced tab, the evaluation report does not evaluate events that occur due to file conflicts. If problems occur, they are reported after you run the Copy operation.
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Web Browser | When canceling an Add operation, the sequence taken for the new object is not discarded.
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API | From SmarTeam V5R19 SP4, the VCManager API (SmarTeam.Std.VC.Web.VCManager) has changed and the ControlsToUpdate() method has been removed. Instead, you should use RegisterCallback(Control ajaxified, Control updated), where "ajaxified" is the control which initiates the request and "updated" is the control which should be updated by the ajax request. Refer to Visual Components API documentation for further details on the RegisterCallback method.
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API | Hotfix for MSŪ XML3 In some cases, as a result of the embedded MSŪ XML3 (DOMDocument), unexpected results and other problems may occur when working with SmarTeam -Foundation. This occurs when using XML, internally and externally, with SmarTeam - Foundation in a multi-threaded environment. This is due to a Microsoft known issue. For more information on this issue, refer to: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-061.mspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0300/xml/ [DOMDocument versus DOMFreeThreadedDocument]. Microsoft provides a hotfix for MS XML3. To obtain this hotfix, refer to: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;905502
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Tab Controls | After upgrading database, some Tab controls may not be visible when using SmarTeam - Web Editor profile cards. If this occurs, use the Web Form Designer to reset the tab order by selecting Tools > Reset Tab Orders.
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Configurations | The valid values for the entry QUERY_PREFERENCES.MaxQuerySize in configuration settings are 1 to 32767 or -1 to get all results.
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Upgrading | After upgrading to the new version of SmarTeam - Web Editor, the UserDefinedTools.dll should be compiled in the new environment.
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Web Browser | When viewing an object's profile card in Internet Explorer 7 using a zoom level other than 100%, attribute data and labels are not displayed correctly in their new positions.
Note: The display of Web pages is resized correctly when using Internet Explorer 8.
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Web Browser | When using a Reference to Class control in the Web Editor, the following issues occur with the pop-up window:
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PLM DB | As Demo Database files are Checked In and Released without the use of the Vault Server, files are not ready for Vault activities. As a result, no actions can be performed on the files, such as Lifecycle operations, Copy, Viewer and Preview. |
Web Browser | A field separator is displayed for Display Attributes in the navigation pane but may not be displayed in other areas, such as Create Link object, Favorites Objects, etc. |
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Web Browser | In some cases, when using the SmarTeam File Explorer in SmarTeam - Web Editor, the obtain Smarteam attribute function does not work properly. |
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None
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Certification | JAR files are released with an expired certificate at the time of first usage and a message specifying that there is an error with the certificate is displayed. |
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Click to continue working.
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Web Browser | HTML Browser control The control HTMLBrowser does not work properly. |
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Use the control URLEdit to add links in the Web site.
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Column or row size | When determining column width or row height, you cannot use a mouse.
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