Windchill Ideas

I n the Product Structure Browser it is possible save user specific filters and system-wide filters that can be shared with all users. If a user applies a filter this is stored for some time for a specific structure, but it will not be kept when opening another structure. For some use-cases it is beneficial to always start with specific filter other than the default filter. At our Windchill Installation we use WTPart View Versions to grant specific user groups an alternate "reduced" view to WTParts. This is how we represent an internal customer-supplier relationship. The internal supplier is maintaining the Design View, while the customer is using the "Reduced View" in their structures. This reduced view does not have a BOM, but has for instance a simplified representation attached or specific documents. To see this reduced view the user has to set a specific filter to not see the WTPartMaster in the structure. If a default  filter that lists first the Design View and than the downstream Reduced View could be configured, this customer-supplier interaction would be more seamless.   ... View more

Provide the ability to configure Cascading attributes behavior on Documents, Parts, Change Objects, Non-Conformances, CAPAs and Complaints. 1) Ability to set a list of values available within a "Target" attribute based on the value selected within a "Driver" attribute. 2) Ability to make a "Target" attribute required based on the value selected within a "Driver" attribute. 3) Ability to make a "Target" attribute visible in the UI based on the value selected within a "Driver" attribute. 4) Cascading behaviour shall be enforced any place where objects are created or updated (Create, edit, create multiple, edit mutliple, insert new from structure,  create from importable spreadsheet...) ... View more

Since java seems to be a security issue for the client machines, all java applets should be removed and exchanged by JSP (or compareable functions). It should be easily possible to replace atleast the most of the common used java applets. It also reduces the software complexity if on the client side java must not be installed anymore. See also: PTC Announcement from 25-Nov-2013 Updates regarding Java 7 Client Support with PTC Windchill Solutions ... View more

Out of the box it's not possible to save a WTPart with their documents to a new number. The Save As collector for WTDocuments is not available in the wizard. Please add this possibility to create a complete copy of a document with the part and revise. Also add the action to the WTDocument to save this document to a new number. At the moment it's only possible if you copy the WTDocument and paste it in a folder. Then a copy will be created. The behavior should be the same as to the CAD-Document. ... View more

The admin shoud be able to define the column width in the workspace. In the commonspace this is possible since Windchill PDMLink 10.1 - but in the Workspace the value for <width> is always "0" and a change of the value dosn't have any influence. ... View more

Add the "Edit" ability to Promotion Request so that an author can add/remove promotion objects. This would also be helpful if Doc Control I was added into the process as a check, they would need Edit. ... View more

As for any WTPart create UI in PDMLink , when creating a new WTPart with Auto Associate in a Workspace, we should be able to choose which sub type of WTPart ... We can only choose the View, End Item, Configurable ... but not the type .... If the pre selected type could be customised by a java user exit like for the AutoPartCretor.... ... View more

Not all CAD filenames are well-managed. For example, CATIA files stored in a legacy system or files systems, created by suppliers or other departments... A Customer would like to load such CAD files to Windchill according to a certain naming rule. It would be helpful to add custm loading mechanism, if rename API could be supported. ... View more