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branches are hierarchical, but cannot be expanded
or collapsed.
Toolbar
Refresh—Reloads the asset listing from the local
scene and updates the window contents.
Status Log—Opens a read-only window showing
allstatusmessagesreceivedfromtheVaultduring
the cu rrent session.
Tree Vi ew—Displays a simplified, hierarchical
listing of the assets in the current scene without
path or status information. You can expand and
collapse hierarchy branches by clicking the + and -
icons to the left of the branch names.
Table View—Displays list ing of the assets in the
currentsceneintabularformatalongwiththe
full path and status for the local version of each
asset. The branches are hierarchical, but cannot be
expanded or collapsed.
[window]
Left: Asset Track ing dialog w indow in Tree View
Rightt: Asset Tracking dialog window in Table View
The Asset Tracking dialog window lists all assets in
thecurrentsceneinatreeortableview,depending
on the c urrent setting. Listed assets include
the scene file, any images used by the scene in
materials,etc.,XRefs,andphotometricfiles.By
default,outputfilessuchasrenderedimagesalso
appear in the window listing; you can
turn off
display of these if you wish.
Also shown are icons for each assets showing the
type of asset (3ds Max scene file, m ap branch,
etc.) and status, as appropriate. Most status icons
are do c umented in the Vault Explorer Help >
Autodesk Vault Explorer Icon Reference topic. For
a reference to the most common icons, see
Asset
Tracking Dialog Icons (page 3–499)
.
Note: N o status icons appear if you don’t have any
version-control provider installed.
In general, status errors can be resolved by being
careful to coordinate the local folder/file structure
w ith that of the Vault, as described in the above
procedure.
You can access most dialog commands by
right-clicking an asset in the window; the
commands applicable to the asset are available i n
the context menu. These commands are the same
as those documented above.
Filtering Files
You can configure individual asset-tracking-
system providers via the prov ider configuration
file,
ATSProv iders.xml ,whichresidesin
3dsmax8\plugcfg .3dsMaxreadsthisfile,but
doesn’t write to it.
The primary configuration func tion is filtering.
Filters define criteria the software uses to
determinewhetherafileshouldbeexcluded
from a pro vider’s control. If a file is determined
tobeexcludedfromaprovider,thefileisnever
sent to the provider for status check or any other
action. This feature is useful when using multiple
providers within the same pipeline or if your
studio st i l l uses file ser vers for certain file t ypes.
Whenafileisexcluded,itsiconisgrayedoutand
itsstatusmessageindicatesthatitisexcluded.You
can also toggle the display of excluded files in the
dialog window with the
Display Excluded Files
option
.
A example filter fi le,
3dsmax8\plugcfg\
ATSProv iders_Example.xm l
is included with the
software. The file includes comments, so you can
load it into a text editor to see how it works and
edit it. If you’re using Autodesk Vault as your