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Aras Innovator

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Overview

Aras Innovator is a PLM tool (Product Life Cycle Management) that focuses on the life cycle of physical products, such as parts, from the introduction phase, to growth, to maturity and finally decline. Within this world, businesses need software to guide them through each phase efficiently while ensuring high quality and centralized data. Aras is able to do this while executing rapidly on an interconnected system and ensuring that information flow from product concept to retirement is integrated between multiple teams across multiple departments.

Connector Setup Details

This section describes the basic steps needed to prepare your Aras instance for use with Viz.

Minimal User Permissions & Viz User

We recommend that you create a new user within your external tool, to be used only for Viz. This is the user information you will enter when setting up your tool connection within Planview Viz. By creating a new user, you will ensure that the correct permissions are granted.

In general, your Viz user account should have sufficient permissions to read artifacts in your tool.

Your user should have a secure password or token. Please be aware that Viz will not allow you to save a tool connection utilizing a weak password/token, such as 'tasktop.'

Connecting to the Aras Repository

Standard Authentication

Required Fields:

Location/Connection URL
- Example Format: https://hostname:port/InnovatorServer
Username
Password
Database
- The database named specified in InnovatorServerConfig.xml

Aras Tool Connection Screen

Supported Artifacts

Supported Work Items

Supported Work Item Type	Applicable Repository Versions	Unique URL?
PRs (Problem Reports)	Any supported repository version: Planview Viz	Yes
ECRs (Engineering Change Reports)	Any supported repository version: Planview Viz	Yes
Parts	Any supported repository version: Planview Viz	Yes
Simple ECOs (Engineering Change Orders)	Any supported repository version: Planview Viz	Yes
Express ECOs (Engineering Change Orders)	Any supported repository version: Planview Viz	Yes
Express EDRs (Engineering Document Reviews)	11.0SP15+ (with add-on Product Engineering 11R4+ installed)	Yes
Affected Item	Any supported repository version: Planview Viz	Yes

Supported Containers

Containers that can be modeled as Flow Items	Applicable Repository Versions	Unique URL?
N/A
Containers used to define which artifacts are included in an Artifact Set
N/A (entire tool is used as container)	Any supported repository version: Planview Viz	N/A

Containers that can be modeled as Flow Items

Applicable Repository Versions

Unique URL?

N/A

Containers used to define which artifacts are included in an Artifact Set

N/A (entire tool is used as container)

Any supported repository version:

Planview Viz

N/A

Supported Field Types

Planview supports configuring rule-based modeling (i.e., conditional modeling) using the field types shown below

Note: If one field of a given type is supported, others that are also that type in theory should also work. However, sometimes there are instances in which this is not the case due to the repository. So, while we can claim support for fields at the type level, there is a chance that some specific fields of a given type will not function properly.

Field Type	How is field type referenced in the repository?	Sample Repository Fields Supported
String	String, Multilingual String, Foreign, Sequence, Text	ID, Title, Name, Revision
Single-select	List, Filter List	Unit, Cost Basis, Priority, Severity, Change Type
Multi-select	Multi Value List
Boolean	Boolean	Changes, Released, Fast Track