Windchill Systems/Software Engineering Ideas

We have received several complaints from the users about the same alerts being presented to users each time an item Web/GUI Link is clicked and are forced to manually dismiss them each time. Lets take a single session wherein user open multiple links and same alert gets presented for each window.    Suggestions are to add a "Do not show again" checkbox. Ticking that should suppress that particular alert for the user, next time you navigate to Integrity.     ... View more

At the moment presentation templates could be designed only with the designer inside the admin client. Quite simply: its a table designer without any flexibility in usage and in design. Here some examples of functionalites, which arent existing or strongly need some improvement:   possibility of nested tables possibility of using one field more than one time in the same tab possibility to change the visibilty of a whole tab possibility to use embedded html-code possibility to use embedded scripting (javascript or something like this) possibility to import/export (parts of) presentation templates (without the need of getdb-/putdb-commands) (easier) possibility to reuse (parts of) presentation templates setting the visibilty of a cell handling of graphics changes should be shown in a history like for mostly all other objects ... ... View more

As Chrome has a significant foot print in the browser world I believe it would beneficial to support Chrome for the WEB interface to Integrity ... View more

At the moment there is no Export for the document differences view available. An export to micorsoft word or excel would be very useful. ... View more

When a user tries to connect via the WEB interface to the Integrity Application and inserts the Address as http://<integrity_server_hostname>:port/im the request is not automatically forwarded to the HTTPS address: https://<integrity_server_hostname>:port/im This is a basic functionality that is generally implemented by any website and should be also implemented for Accessing the PTC Integrity Web Interface.   At this point there is a random Webpage opened that doesn't even represent an Error message nor does it give you the possibility to access the correct link (see Attachment). ... View more

Provide a lightweight user interface to allow for 1st level support to perform user management without requiring access to all admin functions. ... View more

It would be nice, if the non admin users could share their self defined viewsets.   E.g. a Project Manager defines a "Project Working Area" using a separate Viewsets with e.g. a specially designed Dashboard (including fixed Project filter). Now he wants to share his viewset with his Team members to improve the team cooperation as all can utilize the same "view on the Project".   This would also cover a widely known problem cases: - a user has two working environments, a Laptop and a Desktop PC. Currently he has no option to sync theses environments in terms of integrity viewsets, or any other gui settings. - a user has to transfer his environment, e.g. because he got a new a Laptop or a Desktop PC. Currently he has no option to "copy" his environment in terms of integrity viewsets, or any other gui settings (apart from coping the "%USERHOME%/.mks" directory, which might have unintended side effects).   Please vote for this IDEAs     Enable one instance of client GUI per viewset   as well ... View more

  In general, most of the companies that I have worked for, it is required (by audit) that we have a way to tell if users have not logged on to the system (or application) beyond a certain period of time.  If they have not for a certain period of time, you might need to follow up to see if they still require access and suspend it, and if perhaps it's a longer predefined time, their access and id's might be revoked.  The rules might vary slightly, but in general that's the idea.  In order to implement this type of automated system, you would need to be able to extract that information from the applicable application/s.  There currently is no way to get this information from Integrity.  We looked into a number of options i.e.   getting the information from the audit log – the information required was not available there the license manager – again the information was not available PTC System Monitor – this is a third party tool for monitoring performance (using dynatrace) , and it did contain information that was useful, but we cannot extract it via CLI or other connectors that we are aware of.    In order to get the data needed, we have to extract a user list from Integrity, and then extract the users that logged on in the last x number of days from PSM.  From the delta you can identify who has not logged on in that period.  We do this manually on a monthly basis, but require that this be done in an automated fashion daily, which cannot currently be done as far as we are aware.   An article in the PTC community:  CS91906 confirms that we cannot extract this information from Integrity.   There is also an existing community discussion on this: Re: Audit inactive users   It appears that there was also an RFC # 634693.  ... View more

It would be great if in Integrity LM one could define a query that goes over relationships. Example: I have following (standard) relationship scheme: Task <->Development Order <-> Release. I want to get with one query all the Tasks linked to Release over this undirect relationship. ... View more

This is a product idea conversion of case 228058 and RFC 295575 from January of 2016.   Fields should have the ability to dynamically scale to fit their content; this request is for edit views. Text fields may contain a sentence or they may contain paragraphs. IBPLs/picklists and relationships may have 1 selection or they may have 100. Automatic resizing would benefit both authors and consumers.   Ideas: Optional Dynamic Scaling Minimum number of rows to display Maximum number of rows to display   The following text was copied from case 159115: Allow a field to grow to take up available visible space in Integrity LM Allow the relationship field entry to be expanded Expand relationship field entry Allow customization of a field's real estate Allow a field size to be customized in order to take advantage of available space ... View more

This Product Idea comes from the January TC meetings...  Please provide additional details or Business use case if you would like to see specific functionality     Use Case: Admin/user defines a query to share will all users The query is definition is return a list of items related to a specific item Specific item may be define by item id or a field unique to the item Prompt for parameter before query is run to limit impact on server Administrator/Query owner would define the parameter(s) that would be in the query Provide user interaction from item views, reports, default query for relationship field and charts One prompt for all query inputs Input dialog enforces field definition Boolean would prompt for a yes/no or true/false ... View more

Request to support drag and drop operations in Integrity Ability to drag attachments from one to another Integrity item  Support drag and drop operations between Integrity items so these are linked and a double-click would open that object Drag drop emails directly to an Integrity items so they are attached For existing reference, please see also article CS84113.   ... View more

Over the last years a lot of RfC's has been collected in the Ticket System of PTC (former MKS). As soon the RfC's has been given to PTC' Program Management, they are something like in a "Black Hole": If this were older RfC's (maybe from the time when MKS has used Siebel as Ticket System), the original requestor does not see any content of them.   My idea is now to transfer ALL RfC's into the Ideas Application with a mark that they are still existing RfC's, to allow the Community to decide whether these RfC's are of common interest or not. ... View more

Add the capability for multiple sort columns in queries. These would be setup and stored with the permanent information associated with the query, but changeable by the user when viewing.   This is in the top 5 list of complaints/requests from the user-community in our organization. ... View more

The character font gets changed and the text is printed with a weird text when printing an item from web UI using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome   Integrity web UI supports Mozilla Firefox but some of the character font is not supported by Internet Explorer and Chrome browsers ... View more

It would be a great help for users to see the file size of a member's revision. User would be much more patient if they know the size:  10 MB aren't loaded as quick as 1 KB ... View more

It is not possible to nest if-then-else statements in the Word export templates:   <% if ConditionA %>   <% if ConditionB %>   <% else %>   <% endif %> <% else %>   <% if ConditionC %>   <% else %>   <% endif %> <% endif %>     According to CS89313 the statements can be rewritten (with AND condition), but that would create a huge number of statements, when using several conditions:   <% if (ConditionA) AND (ConditionB) %> <% elseif ConditionA %> <% elseif ConditionC %> <% else %> <% endif %>   My intentation was to check for empty fields and the apply different formatting in Word. But that would mean to check lots of combinations of fields with AND conditions resulting in a hugh template. The nesting of the statements would solve that problem. Actually I was very surprised, that such basic progamming techniques are not possible. ... View more

For instance OpenJDK. ... View more