Delete latest iteration of multiple WTParts in bulk in Windchill PDMLink

[bfivesdms]

It should be possible to delete latest iteration of multiple WTParts in bulk in Windchill PDMLink.

[VladimirN · Accepted solution]

Article - "Is it possible to delete latest iteration of multiple WTParts in bulk in Windchill PDMLink": https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS270782 

[bfivesdms]

Thank you Vladimir

[VladimirN]

You're welcome.

[anursingh]

Hi @bfivesdms,

I wanted to see if you got the help you needed.

If so, please mark the appropriate reply as the Accepted Solution. It will help other members who may have the same question.
Of course, if you have more to share on your issue, please pursue the conversation. 

Thanks,
Anurag 

[N-Pyn]

We found a workaround for doing this if you have a reliable way to differentiate the parts you want to delete the latest iteration from.

You can create a temporary collector item and the target items to it's structure. Then you do the "Delete" action to the collector and you'll get the delete table where you can select to delete only the latest iterations of all the objects in the table.

Then add all dependents to the table and exclude the parts that you do not want to delete. If the parts have complicated BOMs, this might be a bit difficult to do. In our case we had made a mass operation with Excel import which messed up a lot of data. We could then find all the part iterations to be deleted from the dependents by sorting by the last modified timestamp and excluding those that had older modifications than the time of the import operation.

Again I'm baffled that Windchill has the functionality to do these special delete operations to multiple objects at a time, but for some reason PTC haven't just bothered to implement it to the multi-select delete action.