There is a user permission in the Folder permissions called May see files before initial check in (Private State). This option would allow the user to see other user's private state files prior to the first check in. These files weren't private state. They were checked in but had no State due to so...

Not sure if it would help in your case but you might be able to semi-automate it with the SW Task Scheduler Convert Files operation, which has the option to "Activate all configurations before saving". You'd still have to do the check-out & check-in steps manually, and it doesn't have ...

I checked with DS about my "fix", just got a generic reply about the perils of DB edits. I ended up just copying the problem files with a suffix, checking those in, then deleting the originals. I realised they haven't been visible to anyone but Admin anyway, since no users have permissions...

I think the files were <Private State> but added to the vault, so they existed in the archive. I deleted them as Admin then recovered them around 30 min later, which left them checked in without a state. I tried reproducing it yesterday (in 2022 SP5) but they went into workflows correctly. At the ti...

Hello! Our SW PDM vault has several thousand files without any State or Workflow. It appears to have happened somehow after a delete then recover operation. I'm unable to transition them to any new state. Any ideas on how I could fix this? I've been eyeing up the CurrentStatusID column of the Docume...