IoT & Connectivity

Hello,   I am trying to call my service 'ResetSheetCount' on each hour throughout the day. (7,8,9,10,11,12, .etc). I am wondering what is the best route to go with this. To use a timer that calls my service every second (use JS to determine whether the time is correct to reset sheet count) or create 8 or 9 schedulers that will execute the service at the correct times. Any other suggestions would be great.    Thanks 

Hello ,   I have configured Thingworx 8.1 on server . but when i hit URL apavhe tomcat automatically down. below is my platform-setting.jason file Also find Tomcat java setting -Dserver -Dd64 -XX:+UseG1GC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.library.path=C:\Tomcat 8.5\webapps\webapps\Thingworx\WEBINF\extensions   Add above in Tomcat JAVA configure but tomcat is going down attached log files . Installing on Windows server. Please help in this case.

Hi , I have Datatable with some records. I want to get the specific rows or field values by using Timestamp, and later I have to send the result through the mail. how we can get it? can someone has done it?  I am expecting pseudo code in javascript using datatable.   Thank you

Hi   We have a use-case where we collect positions in x,y,z from an in-house positioning system. We want to show it in a plot-diagram. I can plot X & Y, but there is no widget for X, Y, Z.    Do you know how to proceed, any workaround or plans to have a X, Y, Z plot-widget? Also want to do a heat-diagram using the same data. On pot.ly (https://plot.ly/javascript/3d-charts/) I can find a lot of nice charts to use, can I use these in ThingWorx Mashup?   Thanks

How to change mashup style in Thingworx 8.5? I have kept background image for master and called in mashup using transparent style,but couldn't able to get the background image.

Hi, We wanted to log each and every action performed by a user in a runtime mashup in a log table that we have.  For eg: If there is a button named 'Add' and if the user clicks that, a entry with 'the user clicked the button Add' should be logged in our table. If the user navigates to another screen from one screen using navigation button, that should be logged that he navigated from so and so screen to that screen.  How can we make it generalised so that we can use the same snippet or service for all the mashups? Please help us achieve this use case.   Thanks in advance, Shalini V.

Hi everyone!   I have created a value stream to do test but I wanna clear the values storaged.   How I to clear the data storaged on the my value stream?   Regards.

Hi, I am facing issues doing the "manual test" with my Analysis Model. For some some models (Screenshot(154).png) I am not allowed to fill in values (Screenshot(155).png). For some other models I can fill in values but then the Analysis Job produces a failure (Screenshot(152).png and Screenshot(153).png).  Screenshot(156).png shows the Application Log right after the failure. Previously I experienced issues with the Predictor and publishing Models.   I followed the steps of this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnZSjDmmIac&feature=youtu.be

Configuring the Thingworx azure IoT hub connector requires creating a blob storage, should this storage account be Hot or Cold Storage?

Thingworx 8.5 Trial.Thingworx Analytics 8.5.Thingworx Flow 8.5.   I am getting the following error (Invalid Connection) when I attempt to create a connection to Thingworx from Flow.   Also getting Error 404 when attempting to add a Workflow from within a Thing.   Have logged a case with support - but is it because I am using a trial?

Hi,   We are trying to call a post method oData API with different set of params. I have attached a picture which has parameters and error thrown by API. Please assist, how to pass collection(edm.string) to oData API.

Hello, has anyone here manage to create a web application / E-commerce website using thingworx? Am pretty new to thingworx and I know thingworx is use for as a platform for IoT development. But is it weird if I use thingworx to build a E-commerce or a web application without involving the IoT aspects? Also if it's possible, how should I categorise "Things, Things Template, Things Shape" as? 

While I was writing my previous post about Purging ValueStream entries from Deleted Things , it occurred to me that a similar issue would happen to those using the InfluxDB as persistence provider for their ValueStreams.   I wanted to take the opportunity that the logic is still fresh in my mind and extend the utility to do the same thing with InfluxDB. I also used the opportunity to create a dynamic InfoTable as it's been a while since I did it.    Also, it shows how to directly interact with the InfluxDB through its API.    The modification is based on a new thing called influxDBConnector  which has the following services:   dropMeasurements: Deletes all the DB entries related to a Thing; getAllEntries: Queries all entries related to a Thing. It has a string output; getAllEntriesTable: Queries all entries related to a Thing. Infotable output; getMissingThings: Queries ThingWorx Things tables and InfluxDB measurements. It filters

  Hi everyone,   If you’ve been curious about Solution Central, our new cloud tool for application management and deployment, and wondered how it can help your existing apps, then get ready because we have a feature for you! Our initial release of Solution Central focused on deploying apps built on 8.5 or later. Today, whether big or small, round or square, red or blue, built by PTC or by you, all apps can be deployed using Solution Central. Using Operator Advisor 8.4? We got you covered. Using an old extension? No worries. Using an app built on 7.2? Not a problem. Solution Central can deploy all apps.   This ability to deploy any app, regardless of which version it was created on, is just one of the many improvements we’re releasing to help you accelerate your deployment. You can take advantage of this latest capability in ThingWorx 8.5.3 and Solution Central 1.0.3. Try it out today!   We’re not stopping there, though.   We have a lot that we’re working on an

ThingWorx 8.5 Sizing Guide Sizing is a very important part of the application design process, answering such questions as: how much hardware is required? What specifications does this hardware need to handle the expected load? And therefore, what is the overall cost of setting up and maintaining the ThingWorx environment? Properly sizing the environment before development begins ensures that there are no unexpected costs or limitations to application functionality later on down the road.   "Hardware sizing is driven by many factors - some more easily calculated than others", as stated in the new ThingWorx 8.5 Sizing Guide. "Measures like data streaming frequency (the data ingestion component)and HTTP request volume (the data visualization component) are easilycalculated... However, sizing considerations for the data processing component of theapplication can depend largely on business use cases and application design." Enterprise-Ready applications have the capacity to hand

When using Value Streams to log historical data, there's a service to purge the ValueStream entries from the Thing itself. But, what to do when a Thing that once logged values into a ValueStream was deleted? Currently, there's no OOTB way to delete these entries if they're not being used anymore. Currently, I was asked this question and wanted to share this with the entire community. I created a utility application that queries directly the TWX DB for Things that are present in the ValueStream but don't exist anymore and allows a user to purge it.    These services are considering  PostgreSQLServer as persistence provider for the ValueStreams. The services can be modified if you're using SQLServer.  Do not apply for InfluxDB persistence providers   The twxDBConnector thing is based on the PostgreSqlServer template, that is present in the Relational Databases extension. It has 4  main services:   getEntriesToPurge:  Queries the TWX

Hi,   I've configured 2 context, populate each context with a site, line and asset, and created 2 users. After setting the permission to each user to each context I'm not getting the expected result: all the users can access all the contexts. Attached are the screenshots with the asigned permissions. User_Fabrica_1 has not permissions to access context Fabrica 2, but in the file "Context Problem" you can see that the user can access it. What I'm doing wrong?   Thanks.   Olatz

Hi, We wanted to bind the kepware tags and create Things from main Industrial thing using a seperate Mashup.  i.e We wanted to create a mashup which traverses from the step of Discover (from main industrial thing), browsing the stations and till binding of tags/properties. Is it possible to do the backend using services?   Thanks in advance, Shalini V.

I have a thing "GLOB" that contains global persistent properties I have another thing "THG1" that has a property "prop1" that is bound to one of GLOB.   Do I need to set also on THG1 that "prop1" is persistent or is it enough the persistent flag on GLOB ? From a simple test (by just restarting THG1) seems that it is enought set persistent the prop at GLOB .... but I have a cloud instance and cannot restart the whole app easily ....    

Hi, We are evaluating ThingWorx 8.5.0 that is installed on a linux server. We are running the platform in a disconnected mode (no internet available). We are following the guide : https://developer.thingworx.com/en/resources/learning-paths/getting-started-on-thingworx-platform/thingworx-foundation-quickstart . We can create and save tags, ThingShapes and ThingTemplates. But on the step 5, while saving the Thing, we are getting "Licence has not bee installed" error. The same can be seen while importing the sample entities from other guide, creating Data Shape, Value Streams, creating a new user etc. Can you please help us understand what might be the problem?   We have generated ../ThingworxPlatform/licenceRequestFile.txt file containing device id. We went through the Licensing Guide for disconnected sites (http://support.ptc.com/lm/ThingWorx_Navigate_8.1_Licensing_Instructions.pdf) . But getting 'Access denied:insufficient privileges' error due to trail version acco

Have you ever wondered if its possible to create a responsive scrollable mashup in Thingworx?   While creating an application you might run into an issue where you want to fit too much content to a single responsive page. Let's say you want to create a nice looking modern homepage or about page in Thingworx for your application. It might be challenging to do so but its very well possible. Let me show you a workaround.   1. In the Mashup builder select Layout tab, change Positioning to Static and set Fixed size to your desired Height. Leaving the Width field blank will allow Thingworx to set the Width automatically and stay responsive. 2. Now you need to plan in advance a little bit. Select a Layout widget and drag it to the blank page. A window similar to the one shown below will appear. Switch to Vertical orientation, choose your desired number of rows and click Done. 3. Your panel is now divided into equally spaced rows. Now you can change the proportions in the Layout wi

Hello, is there a way to make a mashup scrollable? Just like any other web page, when there is no more room for content, a scroll bar would appear and you would be able to scroll down to see more.  How do I do that, if that's even possible? Thank you.

Hi, I have the ThingWorx 8.1.2-b51, it is not a trial or student license. I can upload datasets and create models but at the moment I cannot publish them. I get the error: Model deployment failed on connector TW.AnalysisServices.ThingPredictorConnector. I have tried to change the predictive-standalone.yml and redeploy the ThingPredictor JAR file from the command line.   In command line (running the JAR) I get warnings like:  log4j: WARN No appenders could be found for logger. log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Cannot resolve place holder for ${microservice.server}   And different warnings about varaibles (ex: data.service.url.prefix) being set twice.   I believe there was a previous installation of the PredictorConnector, maybe uninstall the previous one might solve the problem? How can I do that?   Kind regards.

Hi everyone!   I'm using progress gauge and gauge widget in my dashboard.   I would like to know if someone has other type of gauge widget   I already searched in the marketplace but only found the progress gauge.   Regards. Leonardo  

Hi , I have DataTable with some records , i want to use Data filter widget .but when i binds filter widget to "All Data" in Datatable Service . its showing field names in filter widget but unable to filter data. i need proper reference on it. which service needs to bind and which needs to create new one. i have attached screenshots plz see this and give some steps how we can get it.   Thanks