Solid Edge Different authors for different Solid Edge documents.

2023-11-07T08:03:12Z
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Summary


Details

How does user change the default author for Solid Edge document?

When he creates the new document, it always shows the old name. 

Sometimes there are some personnal change need to revise.

If the author needs to manual change every time, that become inconvenient to work.

Solution

An 'Author' property is a System Property. It automatically gets System.Author (The windows user credentials which is logged on the system).

Below is from Microsoft online document.

Definition

Namespace:

Windows.Storage

Edit

Gets the name of the System.Author property (one of the Windows file properties.

Property Value

String

The name of the System.Author file property.

User can manually change the Author but that will be stored as custom property in only that document.

Any new document you start will take default system.Author credentials.

System.Author is a Microsoft Windows functionality. We recommend user to consult with their IT person / Microsoft professional for the same.

Notes

10534830

KB Article ID# PL8701775

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