InFlow Labs: SOLIDWORKS PDM Folder Permission Manager - Review

Last year the InFlow team announced the development of the PDM Productivity Pack. This set of tools has been developed to enhance the capabilities of PDM Professional administrators, in any organization. The PDM Productivity Pack contains a set of utilities that have been developed by our team of PDM experts. The PDM Productivity Pack includes the following utilities; Advanced Notification, File Move Tool, BOM Export, Set Revision Add-in, Property Updater, and Folder Permission Manager.

In this post, we will take a quick look at the powerful “Folder Permission Manager”.

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Have you ever tried setting folder permissions on a large set of PDM folders? Or my favorite; setting up an entire test environment, only to realize the folder permissions will not export? These tasks can be daunting, to say the least. With the new Folder Permission Manager, we can now create an Excel Spreadsheet that updates folder permissions with a click of a button (or two). This can work for thousands of folders with multiple levels, or simply a single folder or two. Either way, this utility can handle setting your folder permissions faster than ever before.

Read the full review of the SOLIDWORKS PDM Folder Permission Manager from InFlow Labs, and an in-depth look at how this powerful PDM utility works over on the InFlow Technology Blog. Continue Reading >>