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October 24, 2014
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Creo Windchill interface improvement.

  • October 24, 2014
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I have an interface improvement that is open for voting. Please join to vote.


<h3>General Status, Modified Status and Local Workspace Status.</h3>

http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/4830#comment-15062


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    12-Amethyst
    October 24, 2014
    That's all available right now.

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    * FRANKENSTEIN = part number ... [0000000261 in your example]

    * 1.0 = version (revision and iteration) ... [ -.5 in your example]

    * + = modified

    * Concept = life cycle state ... [In Work for your example]

    * It even shows the workspace you're currently working in (In this case, Senchuk)

    It's a config setting to show this at the top of your window.

    Upload can be done automatically (and should IMO) every time a file is saved. Check in can be added to the Quick Access toolbar.



    12-Amethyst
    October 24, 2014
    Forgot to add:

    display_full_object_path YES
    dm_upload_objects AUTOMATIC


    23-Emerald IV
    October 24, 2014
    That still doesn't help you know if an object is out of date, modified but not eligible for upload, or checked out.

    Tom U.
    20-Turquoise
    October 24, 2014
    On 10/24/14 07:33, Uminn, Tom wrote:
    >
    > That still doesn't help you know if an object is out of date, modified but not eligible for upload,
    >

    In Windchill 10.2 and Creo Parametric 2.0 M080+ all modified objects are eligible for upload. This
    is called "Universal Upload"

    > *Subject:* [proecad] - RE: Creo Windchill interface improvement.
    >
    > That's all available right now.
    >
    > ·FRANKENSTEIN = part number … [0000000261 in your example]
    >
    > ·1.0 = version (revision and iteration) … [ -.5 in your example]
    >
    > ·+ = modified
    >
    > ·Concept = life cycle state … [In Work for your example]
    >
    > ·It even shows the workspace you're currently working in (In this case, Senchuk)
    >
    > It's a config setting to show this at the top of your window.
    >
    > Upload can be done automatically (and should IMO) every time a file is saved. Check in can be
    > added to the Quick Access toolbar.
    >
    > *From:*Marco Savary [
    > *Subject:* [proecad] - Creo Windchill interface improvement.
    >
    > I have an interface improvement that is open for voting. Please join to vote.
    >
    >
    > General Status, Modified Status and Local Workspace Status.
    >
    >
    23-Emerald IV
    October 24, 2014
    My point wasn't that you couldn't upload them, it was that nothing suggested would improve visibility of these other statuses in the active window. It would be great to know if an object is checked out or out of date without having to go look in the workspace.
    MSav1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    October 24, 2014

    Sorry guys is not available now.


    The whole idea is to be Creocencetric as much we can, and put Windchill behind the scenes where is belong.


    So I made a mockup of the interface improvement. -You don't have to open the browser to see the status. It is big time saver.



    PTC pay attention to us!


    Please Vote.


    http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/4830#comment-15062

    MSav1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    October 24, 2014
    You can't display:
    Checked out, New Locally and more...


    MSav1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    October 24, 2014

    If you have as fast network speed this is a sound settings "dm_upload_objects AUTOMATIC"., but it does not work for me. My files are too big for that configuration.


    But thanks for pointing out that, you can see the PLUS sign after the interation "-5+". I did not noticed that, but you still can't dysplay other status infos.


    Is not a perfect idea but it is a start.


    Does anyone knows if that can be done using ProE Tool Kit, VB or Java?




    In Reply to Don Senchuk:


    Forgot to add:

    display_full_object_path YES
    dm_upload_objects AUTOMATIC


    1-Visitor
    October 25, 2014

    As long as Windchill is a Pull system the user can never know the status of objects without specifically running a query or update; the information is not available to the user unless the user asks for it. Under the Pull system, the only way around this is to continuously poll Commonspace for status. Continous poll is not going to make anyone happy.

    23-Emerald IV
    October 25, 2014
    If they could do it in ProductPoint they ought to be able to do it in Windchill. It had real-time notification in the Pro/e session anytime something changed that you had open.

    My 2 cents worth...