Created on date changes upon Revision?

[JHall]

I've noticed something today, that was different at my last company and the company before.
It's my recollection that the Created On date is static, being the date a part number (or WTObject) is created.

I've not checked our system until today when I noticed that the Created On date is changing with a new Revision.

Perhaps it was a customization to stay the same at the last company.

Is this expected behavior for most of you folks?

James
Windchill 11.0 M030 CPS08

[BenLoosli]

I am finding that the revision date changes when an object is revised to a new revision level. Iterations change for every check-in. That is OOTB behavior. There is something in the manuals about revisions and what properties change with a new revision and which ones don't.

[JHall]

@BenLoosli 

So it seems we must have had the work around detailed in this article. CS197520

James

[MikeLockwood]

Considering Revising to be a Create activity, with it's own creation date is consistent with:

- Delete each object refers to each Revision

- ACL for Revise requires create permission at the resulting state (primarily evident when using two-phase lifecycle)

The database shows created as static for the master (epmdocumentmaster), but variable for each Revision (supplemented by each Iteration for each Revision).

[TomU]

Same behavior here.  Created on follows the revision creation.

[lhoogeveen]

Out of the box, the 'Created By' and 'Created On' are linked to object Revision - we basically never use it because of that.

• We've had engineers/designers try to use 'Created By' and 'Created On' in the drawing only to find out that it resets with the next revision.
• A resetting 'Created On' date makes it difficult to this date within the ModelCheck Condition File to exempt old files from newer stricter rules.

[BenLoosli]

We created relations in our start parts that would capture the initial created on date as company_created_date and then used that in the titleblock. The code would also check for a save as that would reset when the revision was set to 0.

/* EXTRACT THE DATE PORTION OF THE WINDCHILL TIMESTAMP PARAMS
SHORT_CREATED_ON = EXTRACT(PTC_WM_CREATED_ON,1,10)

/* INITIAL RELEASE PARAMETERS
/* SET COMPANY_INITIAL VALUES FOR DRAWING PARAMETERS FROM WINDCHILL
/* ONLY WHEN REV IS 0
if PTC_WM_REVISION == "0"
Company_INITIAL_CREATED_BY = PTC_WM_CREATED_BY
Company_INITIAL_CREATED_ON = SHORT_CREATED_ON
endif