大家知道，Autodesk Vault 2014有几个版本，依次为( Basic, Workgroup, Professional),不同版本的功能不相同,关于Vault产品功能的不同之处可以在看到。但经常会有客户问到Vault的API在不同版本下有什么不同吗？ 或者要实现某个功能，在Vault Basic可以满足需要吗？毕竟大家都想尽可能的节约成本。
对于Vault API来说，各个版本的API功能区别主要体现在是否支持某些服务，这些服务的列表在Vault SDK的“Web Services”节中可以找到。为了方便，我总结了下面这个表格：
| Vault Basic | Vault Workgroup | Vault Professional | |
| Contains methods for manipulating users and groups. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| A service for authenticating to the Vault server. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for manipulating files and folders within a vault. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| A service for uploading and downloading binary file data. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Information on the Knowledge Vaults. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for getting information about the vaults and options settings. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods to determine information about the server and supported products | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Provides the locations of the data server and the filestore server. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for manipulating items. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for manipulating behaviors on Entities. | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for manipulating categories. | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for manipulating the job queue. | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for manipulating lifecycles on Entities. | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for manipulating properties on Entities. | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for transfering ownerhsip between workgroups. | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for manipulating revision values and schemes for Entities. | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contains methods for setting security on specific Entities. | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
Contains methods for transfering ownerhsip between workgroups. Limited Limited ✓
DocumentServiceExtensions
Contains more methods for manipulating files and folders within a vault. - ✓ ✓ Contains methods for creating and manipulating change orders. - - ✓ Contains methods for creating and manipulating custom entities. - - ✓ Contains methods for posting messages. - - ✓ Contains methods for manipulating items. - - ✓ Contains methods for importing and exporting item data - - ✓ Contains methods for logging into and out of vaults using Windows credentials. - - ✓除此之外，Vault API还提供了方法来检测你现在正在连接的vault服务器的版本， Web Service API中的InformationService有GetSupportedProducts（）方法可以用来判断当前Vault服务器所支持的Vault版本。另外，VDF还提供了一些有用的特性来检查你是否正在使用适当的Vault版本，在VDF中的IVaultConnectManagerService，你可以使用SetProductRequirements（）方法指定你的应用所需要的Vault版本，通过这样的方法，你可以阻止应用连接到不支持的Vault版本。具体的用法，大家可以参考SDK中的在线帮助文档。