CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 January 2010
Product News
Fishbowl Solutions® Announces Enhanced Functionality to their Bulk Loading Application for Windchill PDMLink® to Support Flat File Documents
Fishbowl Solutions announced support for flat file documents, such as PDF, Microsoft® Word, Excel® or PowerPoint®, with its linkLoader for Windchill PDMLink® solution.
PTC offers a Windchill® Data Loader that is a core tool used during a Windchill PDMLink implementation for tasks such as loading users, groups, attributes, and much more. It can also be used as a bulk loading tool for documents. Leveraging the Windchill Data Loader concept, Fishbowl developed a data loader offering a user interface and increased error handling capabilities, so the responsibility of loading documents could more easily be shared among system administrators and business owners.
“Fishbowl’s experience with CAD data loaders for Pro/ENGINEER, Solidworks, and Inventor made for an easy transition into developing a data loader for documents that would address our customers’ needs,” said Rick Passolt, Senior Account Executive at Fishbowl Solutions.
Fishbowl’s linkLoader for Documents has a user interface simplifying the mapping of files associated to documents during the bulk load process. linkLoader for Documents can run from any computer on the network, allowing system administrators to share the loading responsibility with business owners who understand the migration objectives. linkLoader for Documents is also designed to continue loading files even after one has failed. Error messages are also grouped so users do not have to sort through log files on the application server to determine the cause.
In addition to documents, linkLoader also supports PTC® Pro/ENGINEER®, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and Autodesk Inventor® data.
For more information on linkLoader for Documents please contact mcadsales@fishbowlsolutions.com or visit Fishbowl Solutions’ website at www.fishbolwsolutions.com.
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