PTC Tech Support pointed me to this functionality to Force Parameters to populate Pro/E Models in the Using Pro/E Wildfire with Windchill PDF pp 5-26 -5-27
The benefit would be all the parameters with Default Values for Models not made using Company Start Parts
that need to be added to PDMLink. Vendor Models, Legacy Models, etc... will have the Parameters.
Q: Has Anyone Implemented?
Other suggestion has been ModelCheck... as well as Mapkey.
Brian
Customizing the Parameters in the Download Service
Windchill provides a server-side delegate that can be used to insert parameters
into a Pro/ENGINEER model upon download. This mechanism can be used to
pass information from the server down to Pro/ENGINEER, where it can be used
like any other Pro/ENGINEER parameter.
The customized parameters are provided to the client upon download and,
unlike system parameters such as PTC_WM_ITERATION, are not updated in the
Pro/ENGINEER session or the local cache after a Windchill operation (for
example, check in).
The Windchill service delegate mechanism is used to allow the customization.
The following steps explain the customization process:
1. Create a Java class that implements the interface ModeledAttributesDelegate.
The interface definition is as follows:
package com.ptc.windchill.uwgm.proesrv.c11n;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import wt.util.WTException;
public interface ModeledAttributesDelegate
{
/*
Implement this API to return list of parameters added by
customization along with it's type (customization profile of the
server). For example "WT_CADDOC_NUMBER" custom parameter will
be of type "String.class" (the java class)
*/
// getAvailableAttributes() returns
// HashMap<string, object="> which contains
// HashMap<attribute name,=" attribute=" type=">
HashMap getAvailableAttributes();
/*
This is the API, invoked by the download service on download, to
be implemented for the customization. Create and return a
HashMap where key is input object and value is HashMap of
parameter name - value pairs that must be propagated to Pro/E
part represented by the EPMDocument (input object). Use the
getCADName() API on the EPMDocument to identify the Pro/E part
*/
// getModeledAttributes(Collection docs) returns
// HashMap<input object,=" hashmap<attribute=" name,=" attribute<br="/>
value>>
HashMap getModeledAttributes(Collection docs) throws
WTException;
}
2. Edit site.xconf file (found in <windchill>) to add following property to
indicate availability of customization service on the server:
<service context="default"<br"/>
name="com.ptc.windchill.uwgm.proesrv.c11n.ModeledAttributesDele
gate" targetFile="codebase/service.properties">
<option cardinality="singleton"<br"/>
requestor="java.lang.Object"
serviceClass="com.ptc.windchill.uwgm.proesrv.c11n.DefaultModele
dAttributesDelegate"/>
</service>
Then use the xconfmanager tool to apply the changes to service.properties file
(run xconfmanager -p)
Use the path of your class in place of value of serviceClass (that is, replace
com.ptc.windchill.uwgm.proesrv.c11n.DefaultModeledAttributesDelegate
with the path to your class).
3. Restart the method server.
