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The following videos are provided to help users get started with ThingWorx: ThingWorx Installation Installing ThingWorx (Neo4j) in Windows ThingWorx PostgreSQL Setup for Windows ThingWorx PostgreSQL for RHEL ThingWorx Data Storage Introduction to Streams Introduction to Value Streams Introduction to DataTables Introduction to InfoTables ThingWorx Concepts & Functionality Introduction to Media Entities Using State Formatting in a Mashup Configuring Properties ThingWorx REST API REST API (Part 1) REST API (Part 2) ThingWorx Edge SDK Configuring File Transfer with the .NET SDK ThingWorx Analytics *new* Getting Started with ThingWorx Analytics Part 1 Getting Started with ThingWorx Analytics Part 2 Installing ThingWorx Analytics Builder Part 1 of 3 Installing ThingWorx Analytics Builder Part 2 of 3 Installing ThingWorx Analytics Builder Part 3 of 3 Creating Signals in the Analytics Builder How to Access the ThingWorx Analytics Interactive API Guide ThingWorx Widgets How to Create and Configure the Auto Refresh Widget How to Create and Define a Blog Widget How to Create and Configure a Button Widget How to Use the Divider and Shape Widgets How to Create and Configure a Chart Widget How to Use a Contained Mashup How to Use the Data Filter Widget How to Use an Expression Widget How to Create and Configure a Gauge Widget How to Create and Configure a Checkbox Widget How to Use a Contained Mashup Widget How to Use a Data Export Widget How to Use the DateTime Picker Widget How to Use the Editable Grid Widget Using Fieldset and Panel Widgets How to Use the File Upload Widget How to Use the Folding Panel Widget How to Use the Google Location Picker How to Use the Google Map Widget How to Use a Grid Widget How to Use an HTML TextArea Widget How to Use the List Widget How to Use a Label Widget How to Use the Layout Widget How to Use the LED Display Widget How to Use the List Widget How to Use the Masked Textbox Widget Navigation in ThingWorx: Using Menus, the Navigation Widget, Link Widget, and Contained Mashups How to Use the Numeric Entry Widget How to Use the Pie Chart Widget How to Use the Property Display Widget How to Use the Radio Button Widget How to Use the Repeater Widget How to Use the Slider Widget How to Use the SQUEAL Search Widget How to Use the Responsive Tab Widget How to Use the Tag Cloud Widget How to Use the Tag Picker Widget How to Use the TextArea and TextBox Widgets How to Use the Time Selector Widget How to Use the Tree Widget How to Use the Value Display Widget How to Use the Web Frame Widget How to Create and Define a Wiki How to Use the XY Chart Quick note: Thread will be updated with more videos as they are added.

To setup the Single-Sign On with Windchill, we can just follow steps in Windchill extension guide. However, there is a huge problem to use "Websocket" for EMS or Edge SDKs from devices since Apache for Windchill blocks to pass "ws" or "wss" protocol. It's like a problem of a proxy server. There might be a couple of ways to avoid this issue, but I suggest to change filter-mappings for the SSO filter. When you look at the Windchill extension guide, it says that users set filters for all incoming URLs of ThingWorx by using "/*" filter mappings. Please use below settings for "web.xml" of ThingWorx server to avoid the problem that I stated above. It looks quite long and complicated, but basically the filter mappings from settings for "AuthenticationFilter" which are already defined by default except "Websocket" related urls. <!-- Windchill Extension SSO Start--> <filter> <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>com.ptc.connected.plm.thingworx.wc.idp.client.filter.IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>idpLoginUrl</param-name> <param-value>http(s)://<SERVERHOSTURL>/Windchill/wtcore/jsp/genIdKey.jsp</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping>   <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>   <url-pattern>/extensions/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/action-authenticate/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/action-login/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/action-confirm-creds/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/action-change-password/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingworxMain.html</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingworxMain.html/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Server/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ApplicationKeys/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Networks/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Dashboards/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DirectoryServices/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Authenticators/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/PersistenceProviderPackages/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/tunnel/wsadapter.jsp</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/tunnel/adapter.jsp</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Logs/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Resources/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Subsystems/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Users/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Home/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/StateDefinitions/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/StyleDefinitions/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ScriptFunctionLibraries/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/AtomFeedService/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DataShapes/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Importer/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ImageEncoder/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Exporter/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExportDatabase/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExportTheme/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExportDefaultEntities/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ImportDatabase/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DataExporter/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DataImporter/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Widgets/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Groups/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingPackages/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Things/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingTemplates/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingShapes/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DataTags/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ModelTags/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Composer/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Squeal/index.html</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Runtime/index.html</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Mashups/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Menus/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/MediaEntities/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/loaders/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/demos/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExtensionPackageUploader/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExtensionPackages/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/FileRepositoryUploader/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/FileRepositoryDownloader/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/FileRepositories/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/xmpp/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/LocalizationTables/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Organizations/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/RemoteTunnel/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderAuthenticationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/PersistenceProviders/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping> <filter> <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>com.ptc.connected.plm.thingworx.wc.idp.client.filter.IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>keyValidationUrl</param-name> <param-value>http(s)://<SERVERHOSTURL>/Windchill/login/validateIdKey.jsp</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping>   <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>   <url-pattern>/extensions/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/action-authenticate/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/action-login/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/action-confirm-creds/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/action-change-password/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingworxMain.html</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingworxMain.html/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Server/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ApplicationKeys/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Networks/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Dashboards/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DirectoryServices/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Authenticators/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/PersistenceProviderPackages/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/tunnel/wsadapter.jsp</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/tunnel/adapter.jsp</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Logs/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Resources/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Subsystems/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Users/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Home/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/StateDefinitions/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/StyleDefinitions/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ScriptFunctionLibraries/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/AtomFeedService/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DataShapes/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Importer/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ImageEncoder/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Exporter/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExportDatabase/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExportTheme/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExportDefaultEntities/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ImportDatabase/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DataExporter/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DataImporter/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Widgets/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Groups/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingPackages/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Things/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingTemplates/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ThingShapes/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/DataTags/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ModelTags/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Composer/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Squeal/index.html</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Runtime/index.html</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Mashups/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Menus/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/MediaEntities/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/loaders/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/demos/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExtensionPackageUploader/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/ExtensionPackages/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/FileRepositoryUploader/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/FileRepositoryDownloader/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/FileRepositories/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/xmpp/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/LocalizationTables/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/Organizations/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/RemoteTunnel/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping>   <filter-mapping>     <filter-name>IdentityProviderKeyValidationFilter</filter-name>     <url-pattern>/PersistenceProviders/*</url-pattern>   </filter-mapping> <!-- Windchill Extension SSO End-->

A user can make a direct REST call to Thingworx platform, but when it comes to a website trying to make a REST call. The platform server blocks the request as it is a Cross-Origin request. To enable this feature, the platform server needs to allow Cross-Origin request from all/specific websites. Enabling Cross-Origin request can be done by adding CORS filter to the server. CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) specification enables the cross-origin requests from other websites deployed in a different server. By enabling CORS filter, a 3rd party tool or a website can retrieve the data from Thingworx instance. Follow the below steps inorder to update the CORS filter: Update web.xml file (located in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml) For Minimal Configurations, add the below code: <filter> <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>   <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping>   <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>   <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>         // "*" opens platform to all URL patterns, recommended to use limited patterns. </filter-mapping> NOTE: the url-pattern - /* opens the Thingworx application to every domain. For advanced configuration, follow the below code: <filter> <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>cors.allowed.origins</param-name> <param-value> http://www.customerwebaddress.com </param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>cors.allowed.methods</param-name> <param-value>GET,POST,HEAD,OPTIONS,PUT</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>cors.allowed.headers</param-name> <param-value>Content-Type,X-Requested-With,accept,Origin,Access-Control-Request-Method,Access-Control-Request-Headers</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>cors.exposed.headers</param-name> <param-value>Access-Control-Allow-Origin,Access-Control-Allow-Credentials</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>cors.support.credentials</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>cors.preflight.maxage</param-name> <param-value>10</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/* </url-pattern>   // "*" opens platform to all URL patterns, recommended to use limited patterns. </filter-mapping> NOTE: update the cors.allowed.origin parameter with the desired web address Save web.xml file Restart tomcat For additional information, please follow the official tomcat reference document: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/filter.html#CORS_Filter Tested this using an online Javascript editor (jsfiddle) and executing the below script <script> var data = null; var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.open("GET", "http://localhost:8080/Thingworx/Things", true); xhr.withCredentials = true; xhr.send(); </script> The request was successful and list of things are returned.

This project is developed out of curiosity of how ThingWorx communicates with sensors and vice versa. Immediately a Smart Parking system idea struck to our mind and I started working on it. While heading from home to office I always worry about car parking space in office especially in rainy season. This project will help user in getting parking space. This project has 4 sections as follows, 1) Smart Parking system: A system application developed in ThingWorx guides user to find empty car parking space. Sensors placed at each car parking slot senses the presence of car. A program running on Raspberry Pi board collects sensor information and sends that information to the Smart Car Parking System application in ThingWorx. The data received through sensor is displayed on ThingWorx dashboard/mashup. 2) Live Traffic: This inherits a Google Map and shows the traffic around user's current location. 3) Traffic Blog: If user is visiting a place and have questions regarding parking, traffic condition etc., then user can post their questions here and people around that area can answer it. Questions are not restricted for parking related questions but like best places to visit in areas, restaurant, shops etc. 4) Automobile Wiki: This page provides an documented help regarding anything related to automobile e.g. how to change car tyres?, how to change car wipers? etc.

The App URI in the ThingWorx Remote Thing Tunnel configuration specifies the endpoint of the specified tunnel. The default value (/Thingworx/tunnel/vnc.jsp) will point to the built in ThingWorx VNC client that can be downloaded through the Remote Access Widget in a Mashup to provide VNC remote desktop access. Leaving the App URI blank will result in the Tunnel being connected to the listen port on the users machine as specified in the Remote Access Widget​. In this case the user must supply the application client (e.g. an ssh client) in order to connect to the tunnel endpoint.

<p>We live in a connected world where we can (want!) to receive instant updates and notifications. ThingWorx leverages the power of Web 2.0 and its Always-On technology to deliver that, but our friendly SMS providers have also provided an easy and powerful way that can be used to deliver SMS notifications right to your phone. Email to Text!</p><div>Set up a 'notification' Thing using our MailServer Template, set up your outgoing e-mail server and you are now ready to invoke the 'SendMessage' service on a given event. All you need now is the email address of your SMS number, which you can find by following this link: <a href="http://sms411.net/how-to-send-email-to-a-phone/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">List of e-Mail to SMS  addresses</span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p></div><p></p>

Remember that when you are calling an external URL to fetch data via an API call to another system that you must encode special characters specifically. For example the URL that you may type into a browser to test may look like this: https://someserver.somwhere.com:443/apicall?parameter1=test string&parameter2=test^number but when scripting that into a string variable you'll need to replace the space and the carrot with the proper encoded values (%20 and %5E) var params = { username : "me", password : "password", url : "https://someserver.somwhere.com:443/apicall?parameter1=test%20string&parameter2=test%5Enumber", ignoreSSLErrors : false, timeout : 60, headers : headers }; var result = Resources['ContentLoaderFunctions'].LoadXML(params); also note that in this instance we're making a secure connection therefore port 443 (typically the default) was explicitly specified...