Creating and maintaining technical documentation is an ongoing process, which means learning tools to make that process more efficient pays off soon. Aras Innovator has a robust set of technical documentation tools as part of a common configuration. …

The configurable user interface (CUI) is a tool in Aras Innovator to alter and customize how you use Aras Innovator without requiring long development cycles, or even to be much in the way of a developer yourself. By making use of configuration chang…

Amid the recent shift towards remote work, and even before the last few years, many businesses have employees all around the world, with a variety of native languages. While Aras Innovator defaults to English, it’s easy to set it up to support ...

The Configurable User Interface (CUI) is designed to let you be your own designer. A knowledgeable administrator can alter the way Aras Innovator looks and functions with CUI in dramatically less time than it would take to reprogram the interface. We…

The Configurable User Interface (CUI) is one of the many ways Aras Innovator continues to make itself adjustable and customizable. You don’t need long development cycles to tweak how things are laid out in your environment, and rearranging thin...

Aras Innovator is a Product Lifecyle Management tool. That means its job is to make your job- whatever it is your company does- easier. You no doubt use other programs, from making engineering diagrams to writing document, and those programs generate…

This article will cover the basics of Life Cycles, which are a tool you can use to control your items in Aras Innovator. Each item advances through various states or milestones as it evolves: specific stages that organizations need to track in order …

We have a number of articles on the Configurable User Interface (CUI) available, but each of them is very focused on one particular aspect or use case. This is a good way to teaching how to use the features of CUI, but today we'd like to take a momen…

While Aras Innovator strives to be a low code environment where you don’t need developers to get the job done, sometimes your developers want to use their skills on your Aras Innovator instance. It’s true that to a programmer’s mind...

When you’re working in Aras Innovator, most of the time you’re working in a Form. Forms are where you create new items, edit existing items, write code, and even where you edit a Form! Learning to make your Forms easier or quicker to use ...

One of the many advantages of Aras Innovator’s open approach is that anyone can come up with a new idea, build their package, and release it for others to use. Often called Community Projects, these range from the small tweak to the ambitious a...

The Configurable User Interface (CUI) is one of Aras Innovator’s newer, more powerful administrator tools for adjusting how you interact with your information. In previous articles we’ve talked about how CUI can be used to customize totol...

Aras Innovator is always improving and being updated frequently with Service Packs and Update Packages. Today, we’re going to go over a couple of new features for the Technical Document Framework (TDF) that were recently introduced in Version 1...

The Aras Testing Automation Framework (TAF) is a powerful tool, but one that requires some technical acumen to wield. Based on Selenium, developers and testers will need time to familiarize themselves with this environment. While documentation is included…

This post will cover the basics of Workflows, an organizational tool of businesses everywhere. We’ll go over creating a Workflow map, adding steps to it, and assigning it to an item. At the end, we’ll talk a little about creating tasks for the Workflow…

The Aras Testing Automation Framework (TAF) is a framework to facilitate- you guessed it- the automatic testing of your Aras Innovator instance, available to our TAF subscribers. TAF templates are designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio, so you…

For many users you’ll only ever have the one instance of Aras Innovator, and when you have a package or codetree change you’ll only have one at a time. In those circumstances, it’s easy to keep track of where things are and what’s happening. As an administrator…

Configurable User Interface forms a remarkably complete package for customizing the layout of Aras Innovator, and in this article we’ll take a look at working with toolbars using CUI. The toolbars are present at the top of many pages and forms, providing…

The Configurable User Interface is the next step forward in low code, highly customizable processes for your organization. When you want to get something done, often the first place you go to is a menu. When you’ve added something new yourself, you want…

This article will cover handling item view sidebars in Configurable User Interface (CUI for short) as well as a few general CUI tips. Sidebars are often convenient places to access visual information about an item, and increasingly the Aras Innovator…

This post will cover the new Item Access Report, released in Aras Innovator 12 SP 3 and enhanced in version 12 SP 5 to include relationship items.. The Item Access Report is a useful tool to provide an overview of an item, lightening the the burden of…

This post will cover some new features of Mandatory Access Control policies in Aras Innovator. Mandatory Access Control (MAC) is one way to control access to data based on the properties of the information requested and the properties of the user making…

This post will cover the TreeGridContainer, a UI component for displaying information in a table while allowing for expanding or contracting to show child rows. For this, we assume basic familiarity with Javascript, as well as comfort with methods and…

This post will cover best practices for building your own UIs in forms. There are many tools but make Aras Innovator respond exactly the way you want it to, from the Custom User Interface selection to the form editor, but today we’re going to assume you…

This post will cover some of the more complex but no less useful ways you can use Properties in Aras Innovator. We’ll go over Foreign properties, some Property Settings such as Item Behavior and Default Search, and even Property Events. In this article…