How to show "locally cached version" as a column in the Contains tab?

[bnemec]

The "Version" column shows the referenced version, is there a way to add a column to show which version I have in local cache? This would be a bit like what is shown in Solidworks PDM Add-in.

[jcapriotti]

I don't believe so, this info is pulling from the database, it doesn't update until check-in. IIRC, a new assembly shows nothing there.

[bnemec]

I don't believe so, this info is pulling from the database, it doesn't update until check-in. IIRC, a new assembly shows nothing there.

That's confusing, the client needs the database to tell it which version it has in local cache? I know the DB tracks the user, machine name and vault that a file is checked out from, I didn't realize it tracks the local versions cached on each machine. Actually, that could be useful to look at sometimes. You happen to know the table(s) that track that?

[jcapriotti]

The DB doesn't know which versions of a file that different clients might have in their local cache. I'm guessing the software is reading the file date attribute that every file has and compares to the DB stored version dates to tell which version is cached. Also, possible its caching it somewhere local but I don't know where.

[AlexB]

The local PDM installation on your machine is able to keep track of the CurrentVersion(highest version number in the database) as well as the LocalVersionNo(cached version no). The API makes these readily available through the IEdmFile objects, which is essentially what the PDM add-in is using to get all of its information, however I don't believe there's a way to configure the Contains tab to do what you're looking for.