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LawrenceS18-Opal
18-Opal
April 13, 2017
Question

Can we create a shortcut/hyperlink to start a new Change Notice (or a document) in Windchill?

  • April 13, 2017
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Specifically, I want to create a shortcut that resides outside of PDMLink such that then when a user clicks on it it will:

  1. Open WC, and request to log in if not already logged in (I know how to do this aspect to any location in Windchill)
  2. Start a Change Notice (or a document)

I am primarily asking for Change Notices, however, if it can also be done for initiating new documents, or other types of objects in in PDMLink (Such as Change Requests, etc) that would be useful to.

Does anyone know how to create this shortcut in Windchill?

Thanks! Lawrence

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JeffZemsky17-Peridot
17-Peridot
April 13, 2017

Lawrence Scheeler‌ - if you are using Windchill 11.0 F000 you can use this methodology

https://support.ptc.com/cs/help/windchill_hc/wc110_hc/index.jspx?id=NavActionGroups&action=show

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DaveEngel1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 13, 2017

Interesting, however it says:

Note:

"Action groups are available when Windchill Quality Solutions is installed."

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JeffZemsky17-Peridot
17-Peridot
April 13, 2017

I believe thats a bug in the doc - but let me verify

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BjoernRueegg17-Peridot
17-Peridot
April 18, 2017

Action groups are available since 11.0F000. Unfortunately the examples are a little bit silly. You can activate the example with the site preference

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Afterwards you have the actions available on your home page.

You need to write your own actions, otherwise you need to have the client customization always turned on.

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HerwigSchwarz13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
April 10, 2019

I think the examples are quite useful for a developer/implementor

The example implementations are available in package:

com.ptc.carambola.customization.examples.actiongroup

One can write his own action group class extending com.ptc.core.ui.actiongroup.AbstractActionGroup.

 

The example list of action groups is defined in codebase\com\ptc\carambola\carambola.service.properties.xconf

Of course the property can be changed to include only your own class.

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