If you are not already aware, Autodesk Vault Workgroup and Professional come with something called the ‘Job Processor’, it’s a utility that helps process PDF, DWF and other visualisation files taking the stress of the users CAD workstation amongst other things.

What you may not know, is that with the help of a small utility called PowerJobs you can extend the Vault API to perform a plethora of custom commands such as

• PDF files the way you like them
• Email notifications
• Property completion
• Watermarking
• many more.

PowerJobs is an extension for the Vault job processor. It comes with pre-configured, ready-to-use jobs for PDF creation and more. And the cool thing is that such jobs are script files you can easily tweak to your needs!

Do it yourself
Want to create a new job? No longer struggle with configuration files; just place your PowerShell script into the job folder and you are ready to go. At the next start, powerJobs will recognize the job and perform the needed configuration for you.

Simple scripting language
Not a developer? Not really familiar with the Vault API? No problem. powerJobs comes with a set of so-called commandlets that allows you to do a lot with Vault with just few commands and parameters. For instance, get a complete file object with all properties via
$file = Get-VaultFile –File “fullPathAndFileName”.