Aras Innovator Orcad CIP Part Federation

Ok step one for me was to try to figure out how to get all those CIP PARTS into the ARAS user interface.

Step 1 Create a Federated Part
First make sure you are logged in as an Administrator, then in the Table of Contents, select Administration->Item Types->New Item Type

Step 2 Fill out form
Now you need to fill out the form that appears, all I filled out in the top form was the name as CIP_PART, and then make sure you click the Federated radio button.   Federated basically means "comes from some other source or database".   Now that I think about it I might have just made a copy of the standard Innovator PART and then modified it to be like this.

Now I also had to setup a few things in the lower section, first I wanted to make sure I could get to these parts from the table of contents (what they call the main menu on the left hand side of innovator).  So I went to the TOC Access tab and added CIP_PART to the Design menu.

Next I wanted to make sure no one could try to add one of these parts manually, and just to basically disable an field editing.  So I went into Can Add and unchecked the checkbox there.

Finally since I'm going to be providing the CIP PART data from our CIP database I need to add an event handler for the onGet event.   Basically this means whenever Innovator tries to get a CIP PART, it will call my code instead of their standard code.  Oh and ignore the onUpdate event handler, I never got around to that ;)

To create a new event handler just choose Create Related from the select box and click the new button right next to it (see the red arrow above).  Give the method a name, mine is CIP_GET, choose CSharp, and  select onGet as the event type.

That's it, save your new part and in the next step I'll go through my onGet function.