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Finding original name of a renamed file

BenLoosli
23-Emerald II

Finding original name of a renamed file

Is there a method to find or have Windchill capture the original name of a
renamed file? If we create a part, 1000307.prt with number 1000307, use it in 10
assemblies and then decide to use the vendor's name. We rename 1000307.prt to
loc-246.prt with number LOC-246. The assemblies will load loc-246 instead of
1000307, so that is good. Now management wants to see which parts used 1000307.
As far as I can tell and get from Windchill is nothing if I search on 1000307.
If I know that the new number is loc-246, I can get the where used and show the
assemblies, but still no reference exists between 1000307 and loc-246. Is there
a table in Windchill that might have this information?

4 REPLIES 4
soerton
5-Regular Member
(To:BenLoosli)

You should be able to find the original name in the Rename History table (see attachment).


Stephen Oerton


Windchill Process Specialist

soerton
5-Regular Member
(To:BenLoosli)

We started with 10.1 and are on 10.2 M020 now. we created this tab called Additional History and added it from the customize drop down


Stephen Oerton


Windchill Process Specialist

RandyJones
19-Tanzanite
(To:BenLoosli)

On 11/20/14 15:01, Ben Loosli wrote:
>
> Is there a method to find or have Windchill capture the original name of a
> renamed file? If we create a part, 1000307.prt with number 1000307, use it in 10
> assemblies and then decide to use the vendor's name. We rename 1000307.prt to
> loc-246.prt with number LOC-246. The assemblies will load loc-246 instead of
> 1000307, so that is good. Now management wants to see which parts used 1000307.
> As far as I can tell and get from Windchill is nothing if I search on 1000307.
> If I know that the new number is loc-246, I can get the where used and show the
> assemblies, but still no reference exists between 1000307 and loc-246. Is there
> a table in Windchill that might have this information?
>

Attached is a report that we use here. It allows you to search for the old cadname and will give you the new cadname. I think I actually originally recvd this report from someone on the exploder. Unfortunately I don't remember who it was to give them credit.

>
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Randy Jones
Systems Administrator
Great Plains Mfg., Inc.
1525 E North St
PO Box 5060
Salina, KS USA 67401
email: -
Phone: 785-823-3276
   Fax: 785-667-2695
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Randy,


I add your report in this document I wrote on PTC Community.


http://communities.ptc.com/docs/DOC-6348


It's very long and collect a lot of things I found here in the exploder, in the Community and also article from Tech Support.


Hope you can find it useful.



You can also join this group http://communities.ptc.com/groups/reporting and maybe vote up this two idea:


http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/4634


http://communities.ptc.com/ideas/4659



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