Bellhop

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

Configure Solidworks PDM

Switch notification system to SMTP

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

Configure Notification Templates

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

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

Add Virtual Slack User

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

Configure workflow

Open the default workflow
Open the properties for each transition (arrow)
Go to the notifications tab
Click Add Folder Notification
Select the root vault folder
Under Recipients, click Add Users/Groups, then select the slack user.
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.

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