Autodesk Vault Programmer's Cookbook

Introduction When an administrator starts working with Autodesk Vault, they run into quite unusual client-server logic. For programmers it's even more hard to understand how API really works. Autodesk, no offense. But after a little time later all becomes much clear and easy. Remembering those days, I tried to comprehend Vault, at now I'd like to make easy way for others to start working with Vault. I beg your pardon, but I'll be using PowerShell language mainly, for some reasons: This is .Net language, so code could be easy translated to any other .NET language: C#, C++ VB.NET, JScript .NET, etc., or even one code could be embedded to other. The code is extremely short - you can get very illustrative wonderful program in just several lines of code. PS is interpreted language, you just store it in text and can easy change to create fork. PS is command line language and you can build object conveyors - this benefits could be useful in administration. All code available on GitHub. So, let's start! Approximate TOC you can see below. Links to articles will be continuously updated. Table of Contents Autodesk Vault 2014 and 2015 > Autodesk Vault Autodesk Vault API basics API structure25% Apr 3, 2014 PowerShell basics25% Apr 3, 2014 Objects of Vault25% Apr 3, 2014 Methods of Vault API services25% Apr 3, 2014 Login Log in to Vault75% Apr 3, 2014 Log out from Vault90% Windows authentication90% Read-only access90% Groups20% Get groups information Adding groups Changing groups Updating groups Users25% Apr 3, 2014 Vaults0% Apr 3, 2014 Files0% Apr 3, 2014 Folders0% Apr 3, 2014 Items0% Apr 3, 2014 BOMs0% Apr 3, 2014 Change orders0% Apr 3, 2014 Properties0% Apr 3, 2014 Categories0% Apr 3, 2014 Job Processor0% Apr 3, 2014 Lifecycles0% Apr 3, 2014 Versions0% Apr 3, 2014 Revisions0% Apr 3, 2014 Custom objects0% Apr 3, 2014 Regards thumb|Flag of Ukraine Dmitry Yemelyanov aka User:Miwa Niza Computer programming A 25% ru:Поваренная книга Autodesk Vault uk:Куховарська книга Autodesk Vault