Time Zones

Aras Innovator supports Corporate Time Zone.

If your users access Aras Innovator from multiple time zones, you should configure Aras Innovator to have one corporate time zone that the Innovator Server can reference. This time zone is used for calculating things like when Project Activities become active.

Setting the Corporate Time Zone should be done before users begin to work with the system in production. If it is done after users have begun to use the system, you must get all users to log out of the system before enabling the Corporate Time Zone.

To set the Corporate Time Zone, use the following steps:

1. Log into Aras Innovator as an administrator.
2. From the TOC, select Administration --> Variables.

3. From the main toolbar, select Create a New Item.

   

   

   Figure 26.

4. Set the Name = CorporateTimeZone

5. Set the Value according to the registry key name of the required time zone.

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones

6. Set the Default Value to the value which the variable should default to if the Value field is empty.
7. Save, Unclaim, and Close the Variable Item.
8. Log out of Aras Innovator.
9. Restart the World Wide Web Publishing service on the server running the Innovator Server tier of Aras Innovator.

The result is shown in the main Aras Innovator window. Aras Innovator displays only one time:

With the periodic changes to Time Zone information as well as Daylight Savings it is necessary that the time zone data within Aras Innovator be updated. Similar to Windows Updates, this new information needs to be loaded into your system.

1. Log into Aras Innovator as an administrator.

2. From the TOC, either click the search icon that appears when you hover over Actions or select Administration>Actions>Search Actions:

   

   

   Figure 27.

   The Search Grid appears.

   

   

   Figure 28.

3. Select Actions>UpdateTimeZoneInfo from the toolbar.
   This saves the tzupdate.xml to your Working Directory.
4. Once the file is finished downloading, a File Dialog appears. Select the tzupdate.xml file that is downloaded.
5. Click OK when the update has completed.