How to logout of Windchill?

[ocorten-2]

Wouldn't it be nice to have a Logout button in Windchill?



Especially when switching between user and administrator accounts this
could be very usefull in my opinion.
As a newbie user maybe I'm missing something, but I can't imagine
nobody else ever asked for this functionality.
Shouldn't be that hard to implement.


Olaf Corten
CAD/PLM Manager, Besi Competence Center - Other Business Applications
Fico BV, Ratio 6, 6921 RW Duiven, The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 26 3196215
Fax: +31 26 3196200
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www.fico.nl

[jessh]

It's *not* easy to add if we're to support the breadth of clients that
are supported with Windchill.

Forms-based authentication is an application convention that works great
when the only client is an interactive browser session. Unfortunately,
it does not work well at all when you have numerous other types of
clients that don't and can't reasonably understand this convention.

Protocol-based authentiation mechanisms like HTTP basic authentication
are based on clear protocol standards and thus work with a huge range of
clients. Browsers hold on to HTTP basic credentials for the duration of
your browser session, though -- and the server cannot reliably influence
this. Thus this is not a problem that is well addressed by server
products -- it is better addressed by browser features.

All that is missing is a browser control to clear these credentials from
its cache. Of course, that's not really missing as decent browsers
provide such a menu item to do this, e.g. Firefox has a "Clear Recent
History" button for this. There are plugins for many browsers for this
purpose.

As for how MDT does this, I can't say, but I suspect this does not
reliably work with all our supported browsers.

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Jess Holle

[ddemay]

Would love to see a screenshot of your logout button for MDT. Maybe the
link as well with the server name or other identifying information removed.
See if the "code" that operates this is available in the general codebase.
Sometimes it is.





For all who read this, I will be posting shortly a solution for 9.1 systems
(can work on other versions with a tweak to some javascript for the UI
logout link)



I will post it however under an alternate subject to start a new thread.



I'm finishing up the PowerPoint presentation to hopefully address the
initial questions. Should post within next hour or so.



- David DeMay





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[wneuman]

Pete - I would also love to see that screen shot. Here is a screen shot
that I have of the med devices template header - I don't see a logout
button.







By the way, PTC agrees with you that a logout button would be useful.
The reason we haven't implemented one up to this point is that it really
requires forms based authentication to be completely effective. Without
forms based authentication, the best you can do is to either 1)
implement a SSO solution that itself allows logout, or 2) modify
Windchill to add a button that clears the credentials on the server
side. We decided #2 was not useful enough to add to the product because
the credentials are still cached in the browser session, so unless you
close your browser windows as well, the browser will just re-offer the
credentials on the next access. David, we'll look for your post to see
what can be learned from it.



We have been working toward more complete support of SSO solutions and
also have forms-based authentication in our long range enhancement
plans. I welcome all feedback on this strategy.



Best Regards,

Bill Neuman

Director, Windchill Infrastructure and Integrations

+1-781-370-5565 (Office)

+1-508-507-0745 (Mobile)

+1-781-707-0470 (Fax)

[mmoore-5]

I assume most of this discussion is focused around Windchill in a standalone web browser. But...in the case of accessing Windchill from the Pro/E embedded browser, I would tend to think there is more to it than just clearing credentials from the browser's cache. Two accounts should not be accessing the same workgroup manager client side cache, so wouldn't the 'logout' action also have to redirect the Pro/E session's local cache folder?
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Matt Moore

[JM_LPE]

Can anybody give me the cliff-notes, I've skimmed this thread and can't seem to figure out how to log out of windchill within creo.

We have an engineering co-op account (and no more co-ops) that I've been trying to clean out with tons of stuff checked out or filled with ghost files in their workspace. The only way I can figure get to it is by closing creo and opening it up again. Would be nice if I didn't have to close creo and open it again to switch between my account and the co-op account.

[BenLoosli]

1) why are you replying to a 8+ year old topic? Start a new one for your new question.

2) Windchill does not have an option for logout. The reasons are explained in earlier replies to this thread.

[JM_LPE]

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@BenLoosli wrote:

1) why are you replying to a 8+ year old topic? Start a new one for your new question.

2) Windchill does not have an option for logout. The reasons are explained in earlier replies to this thread.

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1. I have the same question as the OP, why make a new thread for the same question?

2. Why not? PTC has had 8 years since somebody asked for this functionality 😛