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dgallup1-Visitor
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November 19, 2014
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Enhancement requests

  • November 19, 2014
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I know PTC has a new name for enhancement requests and I know there is a place for it somewhere in the black hole that is the PTC Communities web site but I'll be d@mned if i can find it. So I'm turning to the real source of PTC info and asking where in he!! do I submit an ehancement request to PTC these days?


What I want to suggest is to be able to right click on a folder in the "Common Folders" area of the file browser and have the option to make it the active folder. I see no other use for the "Common Folders" area what so ever. Maybe it has some use for those with PDM systems but to those of us still working strictly from a folder system, I always shange the working directory to where my files are before doing anything else.


I would also like to be able to take "Desktop" and "Computer" and "My Documents" off the "Common Folders" area because those are not places I would ever want to open or save a CAD file. But that is a battle for another day.


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    agioultouridis1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 19, 2014

    Hi David,


    Correct, PTC has changed the process for submitting enhancement requests. The functionality has moved to the PTC Community and is now termed a 'Product Idea'.


    Here is the link: http://communities.ptc.com/ideas


    The nice thing about the new Product Idea function is that all of our peers have visibility into what we are asking for, and have the ability to vote on the topic. The hope is that as a Product Idea gains popularity that the PTC developers will take notice and hopefully implement the concept. One other nice feature of the Product Idea is that we have visibility into where PTC is going with the enhancement requests (if it does get selected).


    Hope the above helped.


    Cheers,


    Alex

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    BrianKrieger10-Marble
    10-Marble
    November 19, 2014
    Yes, the Common Folders tab is very useful for those in PDMLink, etc.

    FWIW, you can rmb and set working directory from the folder tree list:

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    Or from the file>Open dialog box.

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    Not sure if that’s what you meant by current folder or not, but hey, it beats a sharp stick in the eye.

    BK
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    JLG1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 19, 2014
    You do have the option of adding your own folders to the Common Folders:

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    It’s handy for any library folders that you have, to make access to them easy.

    I agree, it would be nice to use the common folders to set the working directory.

    Kind regards,
    Janet Grove

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    rrich1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 19, 2014
    So let me get this straight. This is how we are to enhance the PTC product now. Geeee I see it is going well! Looks like in two years there are 20 posts. But let’s dig deeper. Only 15 of them are open for voting. 1 has no plans to implement. One is current functionality. 2 are for future consideration (if one year and a few months is not in the future what is it). One is under consideration (a name change more than a year old). So how long does voting go on for. One has 4 votes and is still open 2 years and 7 months later.

    In short this is not working at all…….Maybe the enhancement should be to enhance this procedure.

    Ron
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    dgschaefer21-Topaz II
    21-Topaz II
    November 19, 2014
    Actually, that link (
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    rrich1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 19, 2014
    Doug,
    Thanks, that is much better, but still there leaves a lot to the imagination. Sorting by most popular from any time you get a 2.5 year old post with 192 votes for something that should be a no brainer. Multi CPU support for regeneration. And second most with 128 votes is to add spaces to file names. Both of these should be being worked on by PTC but they are still in voting process. I still think this process needs some work and PTC focused support.

    Ron
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    dgallup1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    November 20, 2014

    Thanks to all for the links, my brain did not associate Product Ideas with software ehancements.


    That Product Ideas page is a diaster, there is no way to search through them, only sort them by meaningless terms like "most popular" or filter by equally meaningless terms like "Under consideration". There is a search box at the top of the page but it searches all of PTC communities so is useless.


    When I started to create a new "Product Idea", the site actually did an active search as I typed my title and I found an old submission that is eactly what I wanted to ask for. So I voted for that one but now I can't find it again! So PTC CAN search & sort this stuff but won't give us the tools to do it.


    I know all the existing ways to change the working directory, I just want to get some useful functionality out of the "Common Directories" that PTC forced upon us to be able to pick there and change the working directory. As it is, I have absolutely no use for that bloated chunk of screen real estate.



    In Reply to Doug Schaefer:


    Actually, that link (http://communities.ptc.com/ideas) is for product ideas for the PTC community site itself. The link to product ideas for Creo proper is here:

    http://communities.ptc.com/community/creo?view=idea

    Be aware, that you’ll need to be logged into the community and have an active maintenance account to see them. Otherwise, you’ll get some kind of “not found” error on the website.

    How you get there is to ptc.com, hover on “Communities” on the upper right, and then click “PTC Community” under “Network” in the menu that pops up.

    Once there, click the PTC CREO link at the left end of the menu bar. On that page, log in (link in the upper right) and then you’ll find the “product ideas” tab near the top of the page.

    The navigation of the site is a disaster (and that’s charitable), but there is a lot of activity (easily 4X what PTCUser generates) and a lot of good info there.

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    StephenW23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    November 20, 2014
    The idea you voted on is
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    23-Emerald III
    StephenW23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    November 20, 2014
    Oh and easier to add an image…

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    dgallup1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    November 20, 2014
    I never got to the results page because it puts up a display of the matching content as soon as you start typing in the search box. When I say all the garbage it was returning I gave up hope. Maybe if I spend a more time there I’ll eventually learn to like it.

    Regards

    David R Gallup
    Advanced Design Engineer
    Alternate Energies
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