Bellhop

An addon adding slack / teams notifications to Solidworks PDM Professional.

Configure Solidworks PDM

Switch notification system to SMTP

1. Open Solidworks PDM Administration
2. Right click Message System
3. In general, set Selected mail system to SMTP.
4. Under SMTP Settings, set the following values
   • Server: 127.0.0.1
   • Port: 25000

Configure Notification Templates

1. Open Notification Templates/File Notifications
2. Right-click Changed State and click open.
3. Select Template as custom
4. Set the Body to:

[%repeatblock_begin%{"user":"%user%","source":"%source_state%","dest":"%deststatus%","file":"%filename%"},%repeatblock_end%{}]

Add Virtual Slack User

1. Open Users and Groups Management
2. Right-click Users and click New User
3. Click New SOLIDWORKS PDM User
4. Name the user slack
5. Set the E-mail to slack@bellhop.iitmotorsports.org
6. Click next, then save the user.

Configure workflow

1. Open the default workflow
2. Open the properties for each transition (arrow)
3. Go to the notifications tab
4. Click Add Folder Notification
5. Select the root vault folder
6. Under Recipients, click Add Users/Groups, then select the slack user.
7. Click Okay to close all windows.

Deploy bellhop

Deployment is out of the scope of this documentation since this is assumed to be an internal tool. Please deploy the java server however you prefer.

1. Configure bellhop's properties under application.properties
2. Run ./gradlew bootJar
3. Copy the jar file from ./build/libs and run it on the PDM server.