I was recently lucky enough to attend my first Aras Community Event or ACE. ACE 2024 took place in Fort Worth, Texas, from March 4-7, with a special invite-only event on March 4. The Tech Summit made its return this year after a hiatus since 2019, providing…
This blog will be a quick overview of how you can make your Aras Innovator instance accessible from another machine or configure specific access URLs to your instance. Since Aras Innovator ® now utilizes Oauth 2.0, you might've seen an Invalid Redirect…
With the release of Aras Innovator ® 28, we’re delivering a new Platform Component, Reporting. Reporting allows for an increase in collaboration and traceability throughout the platform. This tool allows you to easily share detail-oriented views, which…
The Event Handling Framework (EHF) is Aras Innovator®’s latest platform component addition to our suite of tools. EHF brings new functionality and features enabling administrators to configure subscriptions describing events and how those events should…
This blog is the first in a new series called From The Minvera Vault . These blogs will take some useful how to blogs from the minerva blog and updating and reposting here for ease of access.
It is relatively easy to customize your Aras Innovator environment…
We recently released a new Community Project to make developing within Aras Innovator even easier. The Developer Super Package is a combination of useful projects to streamline some of the tasks of Aras Innovator administrators and developers.
Here…
In previous releases of Aras Innovator, it was possible to download multiple files to a client machine at one time. However, with the move away from .NET Controls in 11.0 SP9, access to the client's file system became limited. In today's blog post, we…
As you may have read in our recent blog post , Aras Labs is participating in Hacktoberfest 2017! The purpose of this post is to cover how exactly you can go about making contributions to Aras Community Projects.
Introduction
Community Projects are…
We've previously covered how you can utilize CUI to add custom buttons to toolbars . However, you can also take advantage of CUI to add keyboard shortcuts for more advanced users. In this blog post, we will cover how to add a shortcut to select all of…
Updated 9/6/19.
Whether you're just starting your journey with Aras Innovator or you know the platform inside and out, this living list of helpful resources will come in handy. Looking for a resource or topic you can't find below? Let us know in the…
In a another blog post , we covered how to open dialogs within Aras Innovator using custom forms and HTML pages. However, Aras Innovator also supports a number of built-in dialogs that offer common functionality. A previous blog post also covers how to…
Here are a few tips and best practices to follow when creating an Aras Community Project.
Do: Include Your Source Code
All Aras Community Projects must include the original source code. For example if you create an external application that interacts…
This post outlines some pitfalls to avoid when creating your Aras Community Project. If you missed our post Aras Best Practices: Community Projects, Part 1 , be sure to check it out for even more helpful tips for project authors.
Do Not: Use applySQL…
With the introduction of CUI in Aras Innovator 11.0 SP7, you can now manage the appearance and functionality of the User Interface directly through the Aras Innovator client. In this post, we will learn how to use CUI to add a custom refresh button to…
This blog post is a "one-stop shop" for everything you ever wanted to know about Aras Community Projects.
Have a question that isn't answered here? Add it to the comments section below, tweet us at @ArasLabs or shoot an email to [email protected] .…
Aras Labs is participating in Hacktoberfest 2017 and we want you to join us! We'll be encouraging Aras Community members to get involved with open source and rewarding those who contribute to Aras Community Projects on GitHub.
What is Hacktoberfest…
In Aras Innovator 11 SP9, Aras introduced the new Form Preview feature to the main grid. This allows users to select a row and see the item's form in a preview pane on the main grid. Administrators can also configure custom "preview" forms that are rendered…
When it comes to Aras best practices for server-side code there are two goals:
Reduce the number of queries sent to the server.
Reduce the volume of data retrieved from the server.
Applying the following best practices to your server-side code…
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is important for product development as the amount of software and also the liability of software increases in today's products. At Aras we have multiple initiatives regarding ALM - from connecting to a repository…
"How can I hide a specific relationship tab on one of my forms?"
It's a fairly common question asked by Aras administrators. You may need to hide a tab when an item is in a certain lifecycle state, has a particular classification, or a user belongs…
This is another case study I gave during a development training class. The whole training went quite fast and trainees wanted another use case to work on. So here is the use case I suggested.
The USE CASE
We start from an physical BOM ( read the…
Data federation is something we are asked to implement more and more when we are evaluated for PLM projects. Mainly because of the legacy systems in place, but also because some dedicated software may be very well suited for some specific people in your…
Do you want to interactively visualize and analyze your data inside of Aras Innovator? In this article, I will review the steps needed to create Microsoft Power BI reports and describe how to embed them into an Aras form.
1. Setting Up Power BI
To…