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Initial DB package

AlBer — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:22:04 GMT

Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to have/download a package regrouping the overall standard/first configuration of Aras Innovator ? In other words, a package regrouping all the initial ItemTypes, Relationships, Methods, Presentation Configurations, ...

Sincerely

Running ARAS Innovator on Docker

AlBer — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 11:03:27 GMT

Hello,

I found these two web pages about running ARAS Innovator on Docker:

I was wondering if your corporation has any advices or solutions for this option?

Best regards

Token Authentication using the REST API

Christopher Gillis — Thu, 02 May 2019 12:30:00 GMT

Aras Innovator introduced an Authentication Server feature in 11.0 SP12 and has been fleshing it out with each new service pack. In 11.0 SP15, it is possible to request an OAuth token from this server that can be used with the RESTful API as an alternative to basic authentication. Using tokens is preferred for external apps as they don't require you to keep your users' passwords in memory while your app runs. Because tokens expire after a set time, you can also rest assured that if a malicious party later acquires the token, they won't have access to your system.

In this blog post, we'll be going over examples of both requesting an OAuth token from the Aras Innovator server as well as using that token to authenticate additional requests. You can also check out this Authentication Example on GitHub for a simple app that will request a token and use that token to query the Parts in a database.

Register Your App

One of the features of the Authentication Server is to limit what apps can request a token. The Authentication Server keeps a list of registered apps that are able to request tokens, so external applications cannot get tokens by default. If you don't wish to do any additional configuration, you can use the default "IOMApp" client registry. However, we recommend adding a new client registry to register your app with the server by following the steps below.

Open the \OAuthServer\OAuth.config in your preferred text editor
Scroll down to the bottom until you see <clientRegistry id="IOMApp">
Copy this node and all of its child nodes
Paste them as a new section just below the original node
Give a new ID to this registry corresponding to the purpose of your app
Make sure this new registry has enabled="true"

Make note of the ID you give this new registry. You will need to use it in the body of your request for a token which is covered later in this blog.

Get the OAuthServer URL

The first thing we'll want to do is query for the location of the OAuthServer. Because Aras Innovator allows most of its components to exist on separate servers, the OAuthServer may not be available from the same server as our Instance URL. However, the Innovator Server does have a way to query for this information by appending /Server/OAuthServerDiscovery.aspx to the end of your Instance URL: http://localhost/InnovatorServer/Server/OAuthServerDiscovery.aspx .

If you're using something like Postman to follow along with this blog, you can simply perform a get request on this URL with an empty body. The result of this request should look something like below.

{
"locations": [
{
"uri": "http://localhost/InnovatorServer/oauthserver/"
}
]
}

The URL we will use is stored in the uri property of the JSON returned from our request. The JSON path you can use to retrieve this information is locations[0].uri.

Get the Token Endpoint

Now that we have the URL of the OAuthServer, we will need to retrieve the exact URL that we can use to query for the token. This next URL is based on the OpenID discovery specification. We will take the OAuthServer URL from our previous step and append .well-known/openid-configuration to the end of it: http://localhost/InnovatorServer/oauthserver/.well-known/openid-configuration. Again, we can query on this URL with a simple GET request without passing anything through the body.

The response to this request is significantly longer, but it should contain our token endpoint somewhere near the top.

{
"issuer": "OAuthServer",
"jwks_uri": "http://localhost/InnovatorServer/oauthserver/.well-known/openid-configuration/jwks",
"authorization_endpoint": "http://localhost/InnovatorServer/oauthserver/connect/authorize",
"token_endpoint": "http://localhost/InnovatorServer/oauthserver/connect/token",
"userinfo_endpoint": "http://localhost/InnovatorServer/oauthserver/connect/userinfo",
"end_session_endpoint": "http://localhost/InnovatorServer/oauthserver/connect/endsession",
...

The JSON path to retrieve this data is simply token_endpoint.

Get Token

The final request we'll use to retrieve our token will use the token endpoint URL retrieved in the previous step. Because this token will be linked to a user's credentials, we will need to pass in additional information before making our request. If you're following along with Postman, you can use the Multipart Form to specify the following pieces of information in your body.

grant_type : "password"
- Currently, I believe "password" is the only authentication type allows. Aras as a whole is moving towards more types of authentication in 12.0, so this is likely to change in the upcoming releases.
scope : "Innovator"
- The scope of information this token will be able to access. "Innovator" will be used for almost all purposes.
client_id : "IOMApp"
- The ID of your client app you configured in the first step of this blog.
username : "YOUR_USER_NAME"
- Any requests made using the returned token will share the same permissions as this user
password : "YOUR_MD5_HASHED_PASSWORD"
database : "YOUR_DATABASE_NAME"
- This should be the name of the database that this token will be able to access. "InnovatorSolutions" is the default name of Aras databases.

After configuring your body, you can send a POST request to the token endpoint URL with the body containing the properties defined above. The response will contain both the OAuth token as well as how long you will have until that token expires.

{
"access_token": "YOUR_TOKEN",
"expires_in": 3600,
"token_type": "Bearer"
}

The JSON path to this token will be access_token. By default, the IOMApp token expires in 3600 seconds or 1 hour.

Make Request with Token

If you've ever used our previous RESTful blog, you'll know that we authenticated previously by passing in the username and hashed password into the AUTHUSER and AUTHPASSWORD headers respectively. With the token, we will authenticate using the standard HTTP Authorization header. Token authentication using this header follows the format below.

Authorization : Bearer {YOUR_TOKEN}

Note that the word "Bearer" must come before your token in the header. If you're using Postman, there should be a way to configure authentication differently than other headers which should automatically add in this word for you. Alternatively, depending on the programming language you're using to perform this request, there may be a special authentication class or library which will automatically add "Bearer" into the header for you as well.

Regardless, once you have your Authorization header configured, you can follow along with our previous RESTful blog, and you should notice that you can query for all of the same information. You can also confirm that the permission model is still in place by querying for items to which you do not have access.

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Unable to build project in Visual Studio

AlBer — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:13:42 GMT

Hello,

We have created a project with template v12.0 in Visual Studio 2019.

- We have created a new method from Visual Studio and we got 11 errors :

- Then we created a method on Aras, and then did "Aras Innovator > Open method from Aras Innovator" which worked. We now have the method in Visual Studio, we can edit it and save it to Aras.

- Yet, the method that come from Aras doesn't build also.

The errors we get are :

1>C:\Users\0berali\source\repos\A12_CPQPOP\Aras12CPQ\ServerMethods\CPQProjectCost\Import\Method\CPQProjetCost\CPQProjetCost.cs(1,7,1,11): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Aras' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
1>C:\Users\0berali\source\repos\A12_CPQPOP\Aras12CPQ\ServerMethods\CPQProjectCost\Import\Method\CPQProjetCost\CPQProjetCostWrapper.cs(1,7,1,11): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Aras' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
1>C:\Users\0berali\source\repos\A12_CPQPOP\Aras12CPQ\ServerMethods\CPQProjectCost\Import\Method\CPQProjetCost\CPQProjetCostWrapper.cs(17,39,17,43): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Item' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
1>C:\Users\0berali\source\repos\A12_CPQPOP\Aras12CPQ\ServerMethods\CPQProjectCost\Import\Method\CPQProjetCost\CPQProjetCostWrapper.cs(24,41,24,45): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Aras' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
1>C:\Users\0berali\source\repos\A12_CPQPOP\Aras12CPQ\ServerMethods\CPQProjectCost\Import\Method\CPQProjetCost\CPQProjetCost.cs(27,16,27,20): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Item' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
1>C:\Users\0berali\source\repos\A12_CPQPOP\Aras12CPQ\ServerMethods\CPQProjectCost\Import\Method\CPQProjetCost\CPQProjetCostWrapper.cs(29,31,29,48): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'IServerConnection' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
1>C:\Users\0berali\source\repos\A12_CPQPOP\Aras12CPQ\ServerMethods\CPQProjectCost\Import\Method\CPQProjetCost\CPQProjetCostWrapper.cs(19,27,19,44): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'IServerConnection' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Some help would be appreciated, we have been looking for it and couldn't find it.

Best Regards,

Al Ber

Quality Management System module

AlBer — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:07:50 GMT

Hello,

We installed the Aras Quality Management System module and we have some questions:

Concerning the Process Quality Document, how can we display ONLY the Process FMEA (skip the selection between the three options : Process Control Plan, Process Flow Diagram and Process FMEA)?
How can we modify (add or delete) the columns of the Process FMEA?
Is the module a core module of Aras Innovator or does it come from the Lab?

Thank you in advance for your answer, best regards,

AlBer

API post request

AlBer — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:18:48 GMT

Hello,

I try to create a problem report through APIs.

However, the fields: reported_by, owned_by_id and affected_item needs an ID and the following error message appears:

How can we enter the name of the item (Georges and SLCMP-0001) and not the id ?

Best regards

jquery - Get token

AlBer — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:32:31 GMT

Hello,

I try to get a token with jquery but the following error message appears:

POST arasdev/.../token 500 (Internal Server Error)

From Postman, it works perfectly. And from jquery, if I have the token, I'm able to connect to the API.

Sincerely

Overall bug on Innovator

AlBer — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 13:50:27 GMT

Hello,

Since this weekend, when I try to open any item, the following error message appears :

And it's not finish !

It looks like all the methods have crashed ...

Can you help me ?

Thank you,

Al Ber

Problems about Aras Innovator Method Plugin

tomato — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:33:55 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to use the Aras Innovator Method Plugin to debug a sever method in Visual Studio 2017.

Here is the URL of Aras Innovator Method Plugin:

https://github.com/arasplm/ArasVSMethodPlugin/wiki

I build the project successfully, but when i try to debug it the error is 'System.InvalidCastException'.

Where the error appeared is 'Aras.Server.Core.CallContext CCO = ((Aras.Server.Core.IOMConnection)serverConnection).CCO;'.

I don't know why because it is a template code.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

Version child items when parent get versioned

AlBer — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 06:25:40 GMT

Hello,

I have an item relationship structure as described below :

Project
- Process
  - Item
    - Cost

I was wondering if it is possible to version all child items (Process, Item, Cost) when the parent (Project) is versioned ?

Thank you, best regards !

Documentation about Presentation Configurations

AlBer — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:25:18 GMT

Hello,

I was wondering if there are any available documentation about :

Presentation Configurations
Command Bar Section
Command Bar Item
The structure the methods need to have

Thank you !

AlBer

Relationship addition

AlBer — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:45:21 GMT

Hello,

I would like to know how to sum up the two elements in the relationship tab and display the result in the "Cost" property of the parent item ?

Thank you !

Relationship addition

AlBer — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:32:04 GMT

Hello,

I would like to know how to sum up the two elements in the relationship tab and display the result in the "Cost" property of the parent item ?

Thank you !

Update part after an ECR / ECN release

AlBer — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:51:24 GMT

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way to automatically update a part after an ECR or an ECN has been released ? How to explain the change we want within an ECR or an ECN ?

Thank you 🙂

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