Aras Community Projects

Aras Community Projects are open source applications and packages that enhance functionality, add features, or integrate with Aras Innovator. Formerly known as Aras Community Solutions, these projects were once hosted on the Aras website.

Now projects are hosted on open source code-sharing platforms and linked to from  this page. Moving Aras Community Projects to an open source platform allows project authors to maintain their work and encourages collaboration among Aras Community members.

If you have a project you think would be a good candidate for a community project please feel free to submit it here.

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  • User Administration Wizard

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    I am often asked to help resolve Permission issues, especially on implementations that have grown over time and had several different administrators. I developed a small utility that allows rapid navigation of the Identity hierarchy for a User. ...
  • Aras SendTo

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    Lets user check-in Files to Innovator directly from the Windows Explorer Context menu "Send To". Simply select one or many files in Windows Explorer and right click "Send to Aras Innovator". Interested in this project? https://github.com/ArasLabs...
  • MS Project Importer

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    Program that imports Microsoft Project files to Innovator as Projects or Project Templates, with resource mapping to Innovator Roles (for Project Templates) and Identities (for Projects). Opens .MPP files directly, Microsoft Project does not need to be...
  • AdHoc Workflow Dialog

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    Modifies the standard Workflow Voting dialog, by adding an AdHoc button. This allows the assignee of an Activity to create some adHoc activities, to ask for help, before deciding how to vote on the currently assigned Activity. The added AdHoc Activities...
  • Life Cycle Based Properties and Form Fields

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    Latest version: r1-0. Adds the definition of generic property checks based on life cycle state of an item. It also adds a report to show the results of these checks. It is a common requirement that properties defined by ItemType should also be checked...
  • Federated Property for Enhancing Email Messages

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    The following two packages utilize a federated property of an ItemType to enhance what can be put into an email message. In both projects the hidden federated property is populated with data from one of the relationships. The first project utilized...
  • Skills and Training Tracking System

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    This package is based on work done by Kostja Klein at Freudenberg FFD in Weinheim Germany. His solution was for the HR department to keep track of which employees had enrolled in which training classes, and included a provision for charge-back of training...
  • Risk Management

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    Risk analysis, mitigation, and documentation for Project plans. It adds traditional FMEA (failure modes and effects analysis) to each Activity in a Project to help the Project manager understand the budget and schedule risks. Interested in this project...
  • Innovator Service Desk (ITIL)

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    The Innovator Service Desk Solution (ISD) is based on the OGC's concept of IT Service Management, which is outlined in the Infrastructure Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Specification (v2). In addition to the guidelines outlined by the OGC...
  • Generic Action Item with Workflow and Templates

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    Adds an item type "gAction Item" with a simple workflow that can be re-used on any item type to add action item lists. Many times when creating a custom workflow and its form in Aras Innovator or when extending existing processes there can be a requirement...