Teamcenter FAQ

How does the Teamcenter integration work?

Violet operates in a hub-and-spoke architecture: Violet is the hub, and each integrated app is a spoke.

First, a persistent connection is established between Violet and an app. This connection can be made in a variety of ways depending on the app:

• Basic authentication (username and password)

• API token

• OAuth (via Single Sign-On or Client ID & Secret)

Once connected, Violet fetches data from the app on a user-specified time interval (for example, every hour). Violet structures all data in a Violet Data Languge and stores it in its own SQL database. Upon each fetch, if there are any changes in the data, Violet updates the database. In doing so, Violet maintains a history of all data changes over time.

What data is fetched from Teamcenter?

Currently, Violet fetches Teamcenter “metadata” such as:

• Part Number

• Revisions

• Release Date

• Owner

• Last Modified Date

• Last Modified By

• Center of Mass

• BOM Qty

• Files

  • If an active workspace URL is provided in the connection, the files themselves will be saved to Violet during the fetch. These can be found by clicking the download icon at the top of a File entity detail page.

In addition, Violet ingests the hierarchical structure of each assembly, including all children and all top-level assemblies the part appears in.

Violet can also fetch and sync files, including STEP files and PDF drawings.