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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.

There seems to be a problem with the time stamps in the threads overview. I dont't think that Luc has answered even before the question was posted 😉 Going into the thread the correct date stamp of the initial post is seen:   A similar discrepancy here: and in the thread the correct date and time is displayed   I don't think that it matters but just for completeness sake: My time zone is GMT+1 and the date is shown in Year-Month-Day order. Side question: The time unfortunately is still displayed in 12 hour format with AM & PM rather than in 24 hour format. I can find no option in my profile settings to change the time display. Is this a bug or is it as expected?          

This session covers the most common and useful tips about how to correctly use Mashup builder, Widgets and Layouts – and what to avoid -  to create applications with good principles of UI/UX and easier to maintain.Agenda Live building of a simple application to follow the status of Covid vaccination  

REGISTER NOW    Is your team operating an effective DevOps pipeline? DevOps is an important part of a mature, enterprise-ready application, but the process isn’t simple. This expert session will focus on how a full DevOps pipeline looks like and how PTC can help to build a seamless pipeline. Join us for our upcoming Expert Session to learn how to create a Docker image, integrate Azure with Docker and Git, and set up a seamless DevOps pipeline.   When:  Thu, Sep 30, 2021 11:00 AM Presenter:       Tori FirewindSenior AnalystIOT Enterprise Deployment CenterPTC

I notice that a lot of the "questions" we're seeing of late have the exact same format (regardless of language) which is: [user typed in subject] I am using Creo Parametric X.X Mxxx <- Looks like something Creo puts in, not a typical new user thing to know [user typed in message] Here are the errors that I faced [Creo error message] The question: Is there some sort of automated interface that is sending user inquiries in this form to these forums? I ask because it seems most if not all have such sparse detail that they are never able to be answered without a lot of back and forth with someone willing to have a go at it. Stuff like "model not found" and such. Anyone have an idea? Maybe it's something schools are doing?    

This is a small change coming next week. We are changing the text in the file attachments box to explain how to insert videos.   Before After  

The two changes announced last week are now live. These are minor changes, so we don't anticipate any issues, but let us know if you notice anything.

We only have a couple of small changes coming next week. We have some larger projects in the works, but they are not quite ready so stay tuned.   First up we have narrowed the insert media panel because, as @TomU pointed out, it is too wide for some screens, and the cancel and ok buttons were cut off.   Before   After we narrowed it to match the size of the insert video panel.  

The changes announced last week are now live. Everything appears to be working as expected, but if you notice anything or have any comments let us know in the relevant thread.   Thanks

Long time coming: we removed the green bar on top of each topic. I allows the elements of the column on the right to move up. We also shaved a few pixels off the topic title.  With it, we also removed the word "Solved" to have just the check mark.  Before:         Change:   After:      

A small change to try to have as often as possible each topic listed on 2 lines only. We shaved off a few pixels as indicated below.      Before   Changes   After (on our stage server)    

As a general orientation on the Community, we re putting a greater emphasis on Solutions. We are changing the block Top Kudoed Authors to Top Solution Authors.      The layout will be the same but will show a different metric.      

On the topic list, the list of new solutions includes the authors name. this compresses the topic title and makes the solution block pretty high.      We removed the other and the date, to leave the essential. It takes less vertical space.   

A change already live as of couple of days ago. Our vendor Khoros had to do it independently from our own schedule.   From now on, when you insert a link in a post, the default target will be to open in a new page (tab).  It will not affect the existing links on posts in the past. It will apply only to the new posts / links composed after the change.    

Requested for some time: we will remove some white space in several areas of a thread page. Below 3 sets of before, how much we removed, and after. This hopefully will limit the scrolling!    (1) Text area Before     After   (2) Solutions Before     After   (3) Attachment area Before      After        

Currently:      Will change to this, following a best practice and one of the wishes        

We just published the changes announced here late last week. We didn't find any problem so far. If you do find problem with one of the items, please let us know by replying to the specific thread mentioned above.   I hope these changes will facilitate the consumption and interaction at the thread level. 

@TomU , since you suggested this, let me pick on you 😁  When TomU edits his own reply shortly after posting, he will see this below. The language is confusing since it is not the reply TO TomU, but to someone else.    The easiest way to implement this change in the platform was to have instead: "Edit reply by TomU"       

"In response to [user]" will become "to:[user]"   to become