Automatically re-assign life cycle

[bagul.yogesh]

Does anyone devised an automated way to re-assign life cycle to specific type of objects in Windchill?

Regards,

Yogesh

[Sudeep_Bhattara]

Hi,

Something like this... Code has not been tested. In this code you will have
to provide lifeCycleName but you may want to read the name from OIR
(depends on your specific requirement)

if(TypedUtilityServiceHelper.service.getExternalTypeIdentifier(doc).toString().equals("WCTYPE|wt.doc.WTDocument|com.xyz.MyDoc")){
WTContainerRef containerRef = ((WTContained) doc).getContainerReference();
LifeCycleHelper.service.reassign((LifeCycleManaged) doc,
LifeCycleHelper.service.getLifeCycleTemplate(lifeCycleName,
containerRef).getLifeCycleTemplateReference());
}

Sudeep Bhattarai
sudeep.bhattarai@najanaja.com
847-220-7008
Solutions Architect
NajaNaja Ltd

[SteveVinyard]

If I recall, there is a mass re-assign utility in 10.1

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Steve Vinyard
Application Engineer

[Lohbauer]

If you are Running 9.1 it Mass re-assign too. It is confined to contents of a folders. File>New>Reassign Lifecycles.


Bob Lohbauer
PDM/ PLM Business Administrator
Jacobs Vehicle Systems

[ssenthil]

Automated way for assigning a lifecycle is appropriately configuring the
OIR.

Is there a specific reason for reassigning the lifecycle template using
APIs.

[dpoisson]

Use of the many reassign methods in the StandardLifeCycleService class....


wt.lifecycle.StandardLifeCycleService.reassign(...) ;

Example for a Change Activity in a specific context:

LifeCycleHelper.service.reassign((LifeCycleManaged)changeActivity,
lcTemplateRef, changeActivity.getContainerReference());

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[bagul.yogesh]

We have Windchill 9.1 M40. 10.1 upgrade would be sometime next year. Here is how I currently re-assign life cycle (please correct if there are better ways).

- Run a context specific Search for objects of specific type
- Full list - Select All and re-assign life cycle

My Limitations: 1. This process contains manual clicking and waiting in between
2. I have to do it for each container (search all and re-assign all does not work)

With an automated way, this process would be much faster. Re-assigning via APIs seems the way for now. Thank you everyone for your response.

Regards,

Yogesh

[afreitasribeiro]

Hi,

How do I start the life cycle from a specific state?

wt.lifecycle.LifeCycleManaged lcm = wt.lifecycle.LifeCycleHelper.service.reassign((wt.lifecycle.LifeCycleManaged) user, lctr, user.getContainerReference(), SPECIFIC STATE );