A bit over a year ago we hired a brilliant company to configure our Windchill to the workflows etc. that we wanted. One thing we wanted was to do was map our parameters in Creo to Attributes in Windchill, so we could use them to search. So they created a bunch of attributes called MFG1_PN, MFG2_PN, MFG3_PN, MFG4_PN, which are supposed to be Data Type = String. But they accidentally made MFG3_PN "Boolean" data type.
When I log in a Admin and go to "Manage Global Attributes" I get all the listing as expected. But I can't edit the type from Boolean to String. I get that. I read it in the Help, so I understand why you couldn't be able to do that, it's totally different types of information. So I thought I could delete it and create it again as String data type. But nope, won't let me. I get this message:
(I should say I renamed it to "MFG3_PN_Obsolete", with the idea of creating a new attribute with the same name but String.)
Okay, what do I do? I believe there isn't a single Creo object in our database that has a value for this mapped parameter in it. The parameter is there, just empty. Some of our people have had trouble checking in objects because Boolean ain't a string. Even though the parameter is, as I said, empty.
From the screenshot, it looks like you are deleting a global attribute and the global attribute is used in mapped to one of the attributes assigned to a type. If you are trying to delete the attribute from a specific type say, wtdocument, navigate to that type from Type and Attribute Manager and search for the attribute from the list and delete it. Remember, this will delete the attribute and its values from all your existing objects.
I think I got to the right place. See below:
As you can see, "MFG3_PN" is a Boolean data type, hence that little t/f in the icon. I can't delete it though. I check the button, but the delete icon doesn't work.
