Lightweight document editor

[AlejandroSamped]

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders.
Industrial manufacturing (rolling bearings) and services with +3.000 Windchill users. My role is PLM Implementation specialist, acting as project manager for global projects that have PLM at the core, setting standards and ways of working across the entire company. Stakeholders: Engineering, R&D, Quality, Purchasing, Sales

2. What version of Windchill are you currently running?
Windchill 11.1

3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video.
Technical document owners/authors who are not used to PDMLink UI should have a user-friendly way to edit documents in Windchill, e.g. Word documents contained in WTDoc objects; while keeping the Windchill functionality. Windchill Desktop Integration is not good enough, fails often.

Arbortext is too complicated for people who are not "technical writers".

4. What is the use case for your organization?
+6.000 individual documents and dozens of document owners/authors.

Note: this is only the current use case that is being executed as we speak - there is additional upside potential.

5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization?
Managing technical documentation related to products in Windchill instead of in separate systems. Enriched eBOM.

[olivierlp]

Hello, 

Thank you for your idea and the information you provided.

[ptc-116265]

If Windchill would like to get out of the 'Engineering Tool' corner and want to truly reach out to the other domains (Sales, Application Engineering, Quality), that need to enrich Product structures with 'their' documents,  an improved creatng/editing/updating of document content from WTDocuments is needed and missing today, which the reason for the low acceptance of Windchill outside the Engineering domain.

[lhoogeveen]

A good first step would be an easy way to preview documents in Windchill like we can in the PTC community site.

[ScottMorris]

Realizing that so many good ideas have been archived and no longer under consideration, I have created a new version of my request to view documents in Windchill without downloading them first. This could be similar to the idea @lhoogeveen pointed out above, but I want to separate the technology used from the need to view content and access information online.

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill-Ideas/Implement-Document-Preview-in-Windchill/idi-p/786333#M14706

[AlejandroSamped]

Dear @lhoogeveen and @ScottMorris,

I would appreciate that, if you like this idea about editing docs, and you use it to give visibility to your related ideas, please vote it up too.

I doesn't seem fair to use others' ideas only to post own agendas without discussing the original idea nor voting it up.

I have taken the initiative and already voted your ideas up.

Thank you, BR / Alex

[ScottMorris]

My apologies, that's usually the first thing I do for great ideas like this one. I got side tracked realizing all the historical good ideas are now archived an no longer under consideration. Thank you for the reminder!

[kmccormack-2]

Yes, I support a light weight dox/excel/ppt editor.  Even with the frequent qwerks and issues with DTI, I still thinks it's faster than saving to desktop and checking in.  People want it to be as easy as opening a document your local computer, edit, save, and close.  It probably can't be that easy, but maybe the new process can be better than DTI.  

If possible, a live multi-user interface would be cool too.  Microsoft Teams can do it.  Maybe the future editor could have this, 

Thanks, Kenny