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Abolish freezing Creo upon network problems

Abolish freezing Creo upon network problems

Dear Creo Team,

 

Network problems happen all the time, and with ressources in the cloud, mapped drives, vpn connections, home office etc. are more likely to happen nowadays than in history when it was sufficient to plug in just the one network cable.

 

This idea is to make Creo resilient regarding network connection interruptions.

 

Right now I am looking at a Creo instance that has frozen last evening just because a vpn connection dropped for a while. Everything is restored now and every other application was able to continue working from the state as it was before. Creo is still frozen. It will never get back to a usable state - as far as I can tell from previous experience - so I will again lose the work that was made between saving last time and the random network problem that occured.

One possible reply to this could of course be 'fix your network problems first' - but what should I fix first if the problem does not occur because of my action or decisions like DSL line hickups, vpn reinitiated by the server, somebody in the cloud switching ressources, some random timeouts, ... etc... ?

1 Comment
lhoogeveen
17-Peridot

There are similar problems when using Creo with Windchill. If the network drops (even for a second) while performing a Windchill command... Users get a prompt that asks them if they want to work offline. Most users just click the default (yes). At some point later, they want to check in or some other Windchill function but are unable to do so. Nothing tells the user that their Windchill is in 'Work Offline' mode. They are expected to just know somehow and go find the hidden way to get back online in the server manager. We've had to create a help document specifically for this but I still get questions about this. Solution: If Windchill is in 'work offline' mode...  make a prominent/persistent notification that includes a button to get Windchill back online.

 

Solution Concept 1 - Top of Creo like notifications in Excel, PowerPoint, etc. 

 

Creo - Windchill Offline Notification Concept 1 - Top.jpg

 

Solution Concept 2 - Bottom of Creo:

 

Creo - Windchill Offline Notification Concept 2 - Bottom.jpg