Workgroup PDM "Date Modified" Hack

To the best of my knowledge, Workgroup PDM doesn't have a method to search by Date Modified.  (I.e. I want to know what files were checked-in between these two dates.)  I needed to do this during my upgrade to PDM Standard recently and found the method below to be a reasonable hack.  It's not perfect, but it produced the results that I needed.  I'd love to hear about improvements or alternatives, as it looks like I might be keeping Workgroup PDM around for a little longer than I had anticipated.

Go to Workgroup Data Vault and the "Projects" subfolder

Use the Search box and select "Date Modified" 

  • A calendar pops up and you can select a date or a date range.
  • Use Shift-click to span months
 

Select all of the Folders in the search results

Shift-right click & Select "Copy as Path"

Copy (Ctrl-V) the list into Excel.

Use Text to Columns to split up the file path.

Add a Heading Row and sort by:

  • Project
  • File
  • Rev

There will be some excess data in the table (extra rows), but these were easily cleaned up for my example.

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