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Allow an attribute value to become empty when editing attributes

Allow an attribute value to become empty when editing attributes

Status: Archived Submitted by 13-Aquamarine on ‎Jul 01, 2014 08:18 AM
5 Comments (5 New)

When editing attributes of EPMDocuments in Windchill from time to time I need to change an attribute to become empty afterwards and another attribute to have new values.

The second part is not a problem: I can enter whatever values I want according to the restrictions.

The first one doesnt work: if I delete the value of an attribute, i cannot continue:

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Windchill tells me that I cannot remove the attribute! See also CS156238.

Gues what: I do not even want to remove the attribute! There is no reason to do so, and as a user I cannot do this anyways. I Just want the value to become 'empty'.

When making the field of the attribute empty I just want that: an empty value of an attribute.

Removing an Attribute would me need to go to type&attribute management, but that is not the case here.

It would be nice if this would be possible soon.

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5 Comments
SvenR
13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
‎Sep 25, 2014 04:05 AM
‎Sep 25, 2014 04:05 AM

this seems to apply to all IBAs, as also mentioned in CS179626

I have to admit that I dont understand the logic behind that behaviour.

TomU
23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
‎Sep 25, 2014 08:35 AM
‎Sep 25, 2014 08:35 AM

You can clear the value from Creo, just not from the workspace by editing attributes.

PTCModerator
Emeritus
‎Jan 01, 2018 08:41 PM
‎Jan 01, 2018 08:41 PM
Status changed to: Acknowledged
 
OliverDroop
12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
‎Oct 01, 2019 07:16 AM
‎Oct 01, 2019 07:16 AM

Since the bidirectional integration between CAD and WTPart this behaviour becomes more critical since the workaround via CAD is error prone. Deleting a value from the wtpart side does not wipe out the value on the CAD side and therefore the value will reappear on the next check in of the EPMDocument.

In my opinion the IBA holder needs to update all the attributes on EPM Side and could remove the value as well.

Opening the object in CAD the user gets a warning message that the attribute can not be read from EPMDoc. Maybe the message could be enhanced or the users trained to make them aware that they should also delete the value in CAD manually.

I think an automatic deletion of the value in CAD should not be introduced or should be configurable by the type manager since the current behaviour is benefitial when deleting deprecated attributes from the data model but the value in CAD should be kept

olivierlp
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎Jan 05, 2022 09:17 AM
‎Jan 05, 2022 09:17 AM
Status changed to: Archived

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