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I think I have mentioned this couple of times that PTC is positioning Windchill+ new UI as task based UI.What is PTC guideline on Thingworx Navigate roadmap position as role based app in future. Customers like us, JnJ have already on the path of developing role based apps for more than 5 years. These apps are extremely helpful for users who are just searching and downloading content. Is PTC going to position Navigate as their role based app tool? I think it will be great to understand what the future entails.

This will be my first LiveWorx at PTC. What should we expect from Navigate? What should we expect in general?

Emily,   Thank you so much for stopping by the PTC Community today!  Happy Friday!  What am I taking you away from right now?  What is a typical Friday for you as Product Management Director of ThingWorx Navigate?

Our official "Ask Anything" real-time was over at 11 AM EST but as Emily is going about making ThingWorx Navigate awesome.... she is gracious to come back at the end of her workday and even Monday morning. So be sure to add any burning ThingWorx Navigate questions that come in over the weekend!  Don't be shy!  Ask Emily Anything!  Happy Women's History Month, Everyone!

Example would be Download Drawing Bundle app. You can specify Parts or CAD doc numbers from which it navigates links to find drawings. Its hit or miss and since it never seems 100% accurate, users cannot rely on it.  Can you publish the assumptions or data model it follows so that customers might see where their data links are broken? Or make it flexible to align to how customers manage their data. How about just providing list of drawings (or docs!) to retrieve directly?

Welcome to Ask Anything (about ThingWorx Navigate) with ThingWorx Navigate’s Product Management Director, Emily Hartman! Emily is prepared to answer questions about the upcoming ThingWorx Navigate Product Release.  If your inquiry is “off topic,” Community Manager Jaime_Lee will help redirect the question or move it to the appropriate board to keep the product management related focus of our discussion.  So who wants to ask Emily anything?

The TKB was a project started by Shilpa Kulkarni to publish some content on the Community. She left PTC in Nov 2021. Denise Santos in Customer Success dsantos@ptc.com let me know that this is on the backburner 

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This expert session replay covers the main topics that need to be considered when evaluating or designing a scalability strategy for the environment and applications. Additional topics covered are connection serve, federation and high availability.      Some of the databases mentioned in the presentation are no longer supported Please refer to the compatibility matrix to check supported databases Related Articles How to configure a Federate architecture Is high availability supported in ThingWorx

Watch this expert session replay to know how to do a safe upgrade of ThingWorx, best practices for ThingWorx platform upgrades, learn to to apply patch upgrades to ThingWorx implementation.    Additional topics covered as follows -    How to read ThingWorx version Upgrading to a major/minor version of the platform Focus on upgrading to a patch version of the platform Upgrading extensions    

Watch this expert session to learn to use InfoEngine tasks to retrieve and take actions on Windchill data to use in Navigate services   Use case introduction Create I*E task Create service Create Mashups Execute I*E Task   The concepts of this session are still valid for newer Navigate versions, but the session was recorded using old Composer

Take a look at the expert session replay which highlights new improvements of the ThingWorx Navigate Installer with the following agenda: What's new Load Balancer Multiple Windchill Systems Integration Runtime NSSM How to select files to download Installer installation steps Demo Questions  Additional information - How to install PTC Navigate

This expert session covers how to configure ThingWorx Navigate to use Windchill Authentication, background and Prerequisites. Here's the details -  X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKIX) Brief Introduction Steps to configure Thingworx Navigate with Windchill Authentication: Windchill Integration Runtime Thingworx Navigate   Additional Information - Navigate SSL Configuration for Windchill Authentication General Checklist

Watch this expert session as we discuss the following -    How to use PingFederate script: Prerequisites Configuration Run the script Generated artifacts Live Demo      

This session covers Single Sign On concepts and main items to take into account when defining SSO architecture.    Find answers around -  What is Single Sign on? What is PTC Strategy for Single Sign on? How does PingFederate fits in the existing SSO Federation? What products currently can be configured for SSO? Optional SSO in Navigate 1.6 What are the key diferences in SSO over the different Navigate versions? What are we doing internally to prepare for SSO? What resources are available for SSO discussions?   Related articles for further information Related Service: Configure SSO for Navigate

Definition and concepts of Single Sign On (SSO), terminologies, components and architecture, as well as configuration prerequisites and high level steps to configure using PingFederation with Windchill and Navigate and main troubleshooting techniques  

This session will cover an overview about Navigate Product Strategy and new capabilities of Navigate 9.0Agenda: Enterprise Collaboration and value driven Product Strategy Thingworx Navigate 9.0 What’s new   Q and A Summary -  What is the Navigate Strategy around Thingworx flow? Navigate is planning to modernize our app architecture using Thingworx Flow. We don't have a committed date yet for what release this will be included in but we are planning to leverage the Flow Windchill Connector for our Out Of The Box app, so that means going back and refactoring them. We also plan on including the ability to create/author your own custom flows, which will be included as part of a Connected PLM offering in the future as well. Still no dates, but this is a very big part of our backlog and roadmap for the next couple of releases Do I need to install Thingworx Foundation 9.0 before installing Navigate 9.0? Yes. As part of the new modern installer you will need to install Thing

Following the series of new capabilities released with Navigate 9.0, this session will focus in the details of Navigate Component Based app development and how to leverage this to specific use cases Learn all about -  Thingworx Navigate Reusable Components Presentation and demo of each reusable component  Additional Resources:  Reusable components documentation is here

Following the series of new capabilities released with Navigate 9.0, this session will focus in the details of Navigate 3D Viewer leverage this to specific use cases   Agenda: Navigate 3D Viewer (Thingview) Widget Overview Building Mashups with the Thingview Widget New Features in Thingworx 9.0     Q and A Summary  Does the 3D Viewer support displaying Annotation sets? (Robbie) 3d Viewer does support displaying annotation sets that are authored in Creo View, however they're currently not displayable from the view panel on the left side drop down, so if you would like to be able to access and display annotation sets that were saved in the Creo View data you do need to access them from the view infotable and activate them that way. So normally you would want to display those or control those in the custom mashup and have a display somewhere that the user can select them and when you select that from the info table the 3d Viewer will activate that and display

This expert session will take you through a step-by-step approach for configuring authentication between Windchill and Navigate with SSL.   Q and A Summary    How to troubleshoot if Search or login fails ?(Arshad) We have a troubleshooting article for this https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS288050The article has Checklist items to verify your configuration is as per the recommendation.Further check ThingWorx Navigate Application Log, IR Logs and Windchill's Apache server log, if the request sent from ThingWorx server is successful (200) or failed.Will the steps differ if Windchill and ThingWorx are not different server with different hostnames ?(Arshad) The answer is Yes. And It will also depend on the type of Certificate being used by Windchill and ThingWorx server. You can refer to this article for information on different scenarios of configuration :https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS288818In what situation is SSO authentication really necessar

ThingWorx Navigate licensing opens many users a way to access PLM data and functionality at an attractive price tag when they don’t need to use the full power of Windchill functionality.    Watch the replay to know more about -  ThingWorx Navigate Use Cases and Packages License Structure – Big Picture and Close-up End-to-end journey from obtaining to assigning and monitoring licenses   [video] Q and A Summary    Q&A I imagine that there are some mechanisms to control the license usage depending on the actions that are done in ThingWorx Navigate, however what is the impact of customizations in Windchill? Customizations made on Windchill will not impact the available user features in Navigate. Navigate features are made available to the logged-in users depending on their license level: Navigate View allows to view Windchill data, Navigate Contribute includes certain actions like creating Problem Reports, or changing the status of a Change Reque

Many times, out-of-the-box Data services present in Windchill need to be tailored based on the specific requirements. Watch the replay of our recent expert session which covers the customization architecture of WRS along with examples of service customizations.   WATCH ONDEMAND  

Watch this webcast replay to learn about the latest Vuforia Expert Capture releases, featuring Vuforia Vantage, our new work instructions delivery application.   WATCH ONDEMAND   Additional Vuforia Expert Capture updates included in the webcast: Enhancements to web playback incorporating new Vantage capabilities Introduction to Vuforia Insights for tracking and analyzing procedure execution data from Vantage Further details around the recently released version control capabilities

This session we will have a quick and direct overview of the main capabilities of Vuforia Expert session going through the steps required to create, edit and view procedures. This content is perfect to serve as quick reference to ramp up new users and to give context to concepts before training.    [video]    

WATCH ONDEMAND   Collaboration and problem solving just got easier with the introduction of Chalk Multi-Expert sessions. You can now add up to 5 participants to your next Chalk session to improve communication and knowledge sharing across your distributed teams. Watch the replay to: Learn how your organization can use Chalk Multi-Expert to deliver more effective remote assistance. Watch a demo of multiple experts collaborating in a Chalk session to solve a problem. Understand how to enable the Multi-Expert feature within your account.