Exporting/Importing Just Screen Layouts in Windchill 10.1

[RajuPulavarthi]

All,
We are in the process of migrating from Windchill 9.1 to Windchill 10.1. We need to convert some of the UI customization done to JSP pages in 9.1 by updating the Layouts through the Type Manager in 10.1.

PTC has a good tool to export and import the Types, Attributes and Layouts as explained in the Help section listed below.
">http://<windchill<http: %3cwindchill="> Host>/Windchill-WHC/index.jspx?id=TypeAttrChp_ExportImportTypes&action=show

This tool will export lots of information including the list values (Discrete set constraints) which could be used to import in other environments. Even though we have set up the development environment with a copy of Production data, over the time it may have older set of values when compared to Production. This creates a risk of updating the Production attribute values with older data if we were to run the export and import.

Ideally, we would like to configure just the layouts in the development environment export them, import them into Test and eventually production environments.

Are there any workarounds that people have been using to get around this issue?

Any insights in this regard would be really helpful. We would like to avoid the manual configuration of Layouts for several types across multiple environments.


Thanks,
Raju


Raju Pulavarthi
Cardiovascular Division
St. Jude Medical


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