Audience: System Administrator, Application Users

Duration: 45 min

The Aras Office Connector provides a convenient way to manage office files created using Microsoft, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Outlook e-mail messages. The connector helps to standardize company documentation procedures by providing easy access to template documents, controlling numbering and naming of files, and automating creation of viewable files like PDF. Users will work directly in Microsoft Office authoring tools to create and edit office files that automatically create corresponding documents in Aras Innovator. The native file formats, as well as PDF versions (created on-the-fly), are stored in a secure vault

Administration of the Aras Office Connector is straightforward and follows the same methodology as the Aras Innovator web client configurations permit. The Connector is designed to be simple to use, and one aspect of this is that all options are controlled by the administrator on a site-wide basis. These settings affect the user interface and control topics like template management and Office file property imbedding, which are both user and administrative related topics.