Systems/Software Engineering Tips

Overview of the integration between Integrity Modeler 8.3 and Windchill 11.0 M010. Also includes detailed use cases for the integration.Provides descriptions of the Integrity Modeler Windchill Exporter and PTC Navigate Manage Traces Modeler Extension (ThingWorx app) components.

I'm pleased to share a presentation that covers Model Management with WIndchill Modeler 9.4, which is part of an upcoming training course "Introduction to Windchill Modeler". This presentation gives an introduction and best practices on the following topics: Access permissions versioning, private sandboxes, rebase, reconcile clone, component sharing, import/export differencing, reporting package states and versions  regards, Patrck

Storyboard describing best practices and a typical development process that can be used to apply Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) using Windchill Modeler.

We are bringing the Liveworx UX Lab to you this year! Contribute to the design and development of PTC’s products from the comfort of your home.   Participate in online 1:1 session with PTC Researchers and Designers to take our prototypes & conceptual designs for a spin, share your expertise to directly impact the experience of our future products.   For all Liveworx 2020 UX Lab sessions, click here   Windchill SSE (formerly Integrity) session links: WINDCHILL: RV&S 12.4 (formally Integrity Lifecycle Manager) WINDCHILL: Modeler 9.3 (formerly Integrity Modeler)

Windchill Systems & Software Engineering is pleased to announce that, in collaboration with the LiveWorx Team, we are offering Systems & Software Engineering Virtual Symposium, a webinar series dedicated to Systems & Software Engineering (formerly Integrity) topics.  Some of the content being planned includes the latest news and product updates from PTC SSE Product Management team, partner solutions, and customer presentations.    We wanted  to give you a sneak peek on the PTC Community, while we finalize the schedule.    Please register tor the event to stay informed.        

Hint: to open the small pictures perform a "right-click" and then "open in separate tab"   Intention This document is intended as a discussion base for topics and solutions around Reporting in general and specifically the Integrity Gateway and the Integrity Reports.   Status Although the PTC world speaks in between with ThingWorx and PTC Navigate (including reporting Apps), I still believe that Integrity Build-In Reporting has its place in the product.   Related Use Case As a user, I want the system to provide a single interface to generate predefined reports without having to switch to different tools. I need different formats depending on my goal for the information processing, either in MS Word, MS Excel, HTML or PDF format.   Standard Integrity Functionality Integrity Gateway: Create standardized Output - mainly in Word Format - for any stakeholder or auditors. Integrity Reports: Ad Hoc Reporting for any kind of business need in HTML or XML format.   1. Int

Hello, we are currently evaluating an option to include customized help into the ILM standard help system.   I am wondering if anyone of you can give me input how you today create custom help text (in your environment), and which tools you use to maintain it. From PTC point of view this customized help might come out of Integrity Process Director directly.   I am pretty sure that such a "Customized Help System Redirector", like it is briefly described below, can be implemented easily.   Here is the draft concept:   Related Ideas List Adminstrators of Integrity Related PTC Windchill Solution Windchill Help Center Enhancements Volker

If you are interested in "Meeting Minutes" and / or "RESTful services" in Integrity LM, read on ...At PTC Consulting, we usually analyze different solution alternatives for our customers. During such an evaluation project, we analyzed the possibility of interacting with RESTful Services. As an outcome, a library was created that communicates with Integrity in order to obtain items and to create simple documents. (Since Integrity LM 10.9 and also in 11.1 we have included RESTeasy as one of the well-known RESTful implementations.)I was then looking for a good example and reminded me of my interest to go away from Excel and Word Meeting Minutes. So I implemented a simple "Meeting Minutes Application" on top of the RESTeasy libs.I am happy to share this with interested people in the state as it is now.   Please note: It was only created for demo purposes It runs on a separate Integrity project server (not on the PROD!) It meets the minimal requirements for a Meeting Minutes app. It u

Hello All,   Let me show you how we recently configured the Integrity Lifecycle Manager layout for our Rich Client.Below is an example, the Test Session.As you can see, it looks new and helps the user to navigate easily within the form.Now, I ask you for your feedback. Maybe you have implemented another form layout that you are very proud of?   Test Session Layout:   Same Layout with Comments:   And the other Tabs:

Intention This tip lists different best practices how we are managing certain administrative use cases within Integrity LM. All of them are in production since some years, and very stable.   Status The list below is a working list. Feel free to comment or even add more. I will update the main tip section accordingly.   Best Practices with Use Cases   Topic #1 Environment specific images for the Presentation Layout. Use Case As a user or administrator, I want to see easily in which environment I am working. Best Practice Add an Image to the presentation layout, which has always the same name, such as environment.png The link is pointing to a file on that specific server. The image itself presents the Environment, such as TEST or PROD. This solution also works in a stage environment. Example   Topic #2 Stageable Gateway Configurations Use Case As a system administrator, I want to stage all files, including the XML files in gateway + gateway/mappings. Best P

Concept Idea   We in PTC Consulting are currently working on a concept to enable Admin Staging without having the Stage System enabled. There are different options available, and we are reviewing them regarding flexibility, efficiency and stability.   What we are looking for   Your input and contribution is requested!   If you have a good business case, and if you are interested in a contribution, then please drop me a personal message with your business contact details. Additionally, describe your concrete business case.   I will contact you then shortly with some more material, that we have already collected.   Thank you Volker   ----------------------------------- Is "im createsolution" an alternative?   "im createsolution" was designed to extract the current configuration completely into a single file (.imt) and deploy it into an empty Integrity Server. Common Use Cases are:  Create fresh Training Environment, Create fresh Developm

Intention This document is intended to describe the current status of Integrity LM configuration reports and to collect related discussions and ideas.   Configuration Reports for W&D Integrity Docs Custom developed offline solution creating static html pages about types and triggers for review and sharing Is provided as a JAR file to be executed on client One alternative is "Type Fields in Excel" Custom developed offline solution creating Excel Files instead of html files with similar information Especially helpful when you are in a workshop and like to track requested changes directly in Excel for later implementation Is provided as a JAR file to be executed on client IMConfig Custom developed Online solution for Admin reporting. For Type-Fields, the same java code is used here like in solution #2. And, it offers many more reporting, not only "Type-Fields-Workflows". For example, it offers also reporting for User-Group-Dynamic-Group details. Is provided as a single

Intention This tip lists different best practices how we are managing certain administrative use cases within Integrity LM. All of them are in production since some years, and very stable.   Status The list below is a working list. Feel free to comment or even add more. I will update the main tip section accordingly.   Best Practices with Use Cases   Topics #1 to #10 are here   Topic #11 Item Editability Restriction Use Case As a process responsible, I want to make sure that only specific persons are allowed to edit items. As a process responsible, I want to assign the current user as default value for "Assigned User", that any item has a value in this field. As a process responsible, I want to make sure that users assigned to a read-only group can not edit any item in Integrity. As a process responsible, I want to allow that Project Administrators and Team Leads can always edit an item. Best Practice Add the field "Assigned User" to any item type of interest

IntegrityDocs Creates a set of HTML pages documenting the PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager configuration.   Version 12.2: Created for Integrity 10.9/11.x/12.x and with full support of latest Firefox / Chrome / IE Purpose IntegrityDocs exports the current Integrity Server configuration from W&D, and creates HTML pages. Each section under Workflows&Documents will become one node within the report tree. Each section starts with an "Overview" page, and then each element can be reviewed in more detail by drilling down.   Use Cases Document the current Integrity LM configuration status Validate and compare the Integrity LM configuration status Present the Integrity LM configuration status without the need to have direct Integrity access   Install In IntegrityClient folder Put the "IntegrityDocs.jar" into your <IntegrityClient>/lib folder Put the "IntegrityDocs.bat" directly into your <IntegrityClient> folder Check and update the IntegrityDocs.bat fil

If there are 2 PLE licenses available how can it be controlled which users can access those licenses as the default is to take the license so the first 2 users take the licenses unless they specify not to take the license? This prevents the specialist variability Modeling users access the editor licenses. The method in this video uses the Flexlm options file to control who can use these features:   There are many other licensing features that the options files can control. For details please see Chapter 5 - The Options File in the Flexlm End user guide this can be downloaded from: https://support.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/standards/fileothumbredirect.jsp?&im_dbkey=168637&icg_dbkey=522

Tag values can be displayed on both of these types of items using the diagram and object View Options The video below shows an example of this process including the creation and application of the Stereotypes and Tags

Intro This article outlines a concept how you can include the Gateway Configuration files for mappings and the main gateway-tool-configuration.xml in the staging process. The goal is to have a single process for each type of server file transfer.   Advantages No need to touch any Gateway file on TEST or PROD environment. File transfer utilizes the standard Integrity Stage Process Current Status In Integrity Standard, the Gateway server files resides in the directory server/data/gateway. Therefore those files can not be staged. But it is a common request to stage them like any other server file.   Our Approach The staging process takes up all files which are stored in server/data/public_html. So at first, we put the gateway XML files beside the Gateway template files. Additionally, we use a trigger script to copy the staged files from this directory into the target directory. During this copy process the trigger will also change the server name to the right one. &n

Call for ParticipantsPTC is looking for participants for a Voice of the Customer focus group covering integration of Change Management Processes between Windchill and Integrity and other ALM tools. PurposeThe purpose of this program is to align voice of the customer with the roadmap and development timeline for Windchill-Integrity Change Management integration.  This is the next step in the process after the Windchill-Integrity Requirements Traceability work.  In this way, we can receive early and frequent feedback from you, PTC’s key stakeholder. Please see the featured video for more information.What It InvolvesKey Criteria for participation – willingness to: • Provide use case examples• Participate in prioritization surveys• Participate in interviews• Participate in remote usability surveys • Provide written business justification In addition, you’ll be required to participate in collaborative events such as webcasts and reviewing content for the project including live dem

Intention This document describes the consulting solution "Integrity STeF", which can help you to perform functional tests within Integrity W&D.   What is STeF? Integrity STeF stands for "Integrity Setup Testing Framework" to perform functional tests by entering and updating Integrity data through the Integrity API. STeF uses the FitNesse tool (see fitnesse.org). FitNesse itself is a Wiki-based testing platform to manage the test cases and test groups. STeF combines both tools by building the bridge between them.   Related Use Cases As a functional tester, I’d like to test if the data entry for Defects or Change Requests can be done without errors by different roles, including state changes and proper handling of required fields. As a functional tester, I’d like to test that all my triggers will perform as before after a major concept change in my trigger logic. As a system tester, I’d like to perform a number of tests in one run, to validate that my system performs in

Paul Bowden, Principle Consultant, from Nanga Systems teams up with The Reuse Company to show you how Requirements Quality Suite and Requirements Authoring Tool is used with PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager to ensure high quality, reusable requirements. These requirements can then form a high quality foundation to drive successful UML / SysML activity. This allows multi-discipline teams to build complete reliable and agile traceability across your engineering assets.   

Hello Community,we are often asked why in the ALM Solution the item metrics are updated only once a day.Actually, it is implemented that way, especially because such an update might take a long time and would affect the end users GUI performance negatively.But, still companies are asking for a solution.First of all, it is NOT suggested to change the field definition to perform the update dynamically. ´What alternatives we offer?Take a look at the attached trigger script.  This script updates the Test Metrics on Test Objective level as soon as a Test Session is set to completed.IMPORTANT: This trigger script is in experimental state. For sure you are welcome to try this out in your own TEST environment.If you enable the parameter, it will also update the Test Objective parent, which should be another Test Objective or a Test Plan item.Trigger: Recalc Test MetricsType: ruleRule: ((field["Type"] = "Test Session") and (field'["State"] = "Completed") and (field["State"] != field'["Stat

Requirements Quality Suite, a solution from The Reuse Company, allows you to customize, check and improve the quality of your requirements specifications and requirements documents.   In this video you can see: 1. How a PTC Integrity document is opened in Requirements Quality Analyzer (RQA) 2. How RQA can check the quality for this Integrity document 3. How Requirements Authoring Tools can help creating smart requirements on top of PTC Integrity 4. How our Authoring plugin is performing from within PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager 5. How different quality metrics can now be checked on-the-fly 6. How the Authoring plugin allows you to write requirements in PTC Integrity just by following a requirements pattern description  

Uploaded 10/01/2010 by Jim Winder to YouTube Developers are disconnected from Requirements, frustrated with lots of manual effort, and pulled in many directions. In this short demonstration we see how MKS Integrity provides a one-stop solution to help developers stay happy and productive    

We are constantly asked how to extend the default text field of Requirements to be able to enter rich text data easier  (Without the need to run "Edit in Word").Unfortunately, there is no resizing of the text box yet.But, we can have a new field which we can put into another tab, with different sizing:Based on the nature of the Integrity Client, both text fields will be kept in sync automatically(in fact both are based on the same internal Shared Text).Field Setup:Perhaps this is something you like to try out?Keep in mind that you should check any restriction for editability related to the standard "Text" field.If there is one defined, you must apply this rule also to this new "Text Long" field. You should also check and update the Requirement Type properties.Furthermore, I was also trying to achive the same functionality for the "Description" field, which is used in Defects, Change Requests etc.Although I played with new QBR, Relationships and so on, I can't bring it to work.If y