Restoring the Windchill Welcome Screen - Is it possible?

[MR_10810161]

Version: Windchill 12.1

Use Case: Hi, Is it possible to restore the welcome screen shown in the screen shot, After a user checked the red marked box? I could not find any helpful article to reset it. There is no such a thing the preference management of the user. Is it possible to delete a cache or something for a particular user? I have admin credentials too.. This request is not urgent for sure, but one of the users asked me to help him with it.. Thanks for your help

Description:

[mmeadows-3]

Probably more than you care to know about the Welcome page...

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS194286

%wt_home%\codebase\netmarkets\jsp\netmarkets\welcome.jsp

%wt_home%\codebase\netmarkets\images\welcome.png

Notes:

• This page (and the check box) can be accessed by: QuickLinks > Help > Welcome to Windchill
• %wt_home%\codebase\netmarkets\jsp\netmarkets\welcomepage.jsp is for earlier releases.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS58708

• The page can be turned off for everyone using loadFromFile.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS67176

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE NmLoader SYSTEM "standardX20.dtd">

<NmLoader>

<csvPreferenceInstance handler="wt.preference.LoadPreference.createPreferenceInstance">

             <csvname>CloseWelcomePage</csvname>

             <csvclientName>WINDCHILL</csvclientName>

             <csvvalue>b%3A0</csvvalue>

             <csvlock>true</csvlock>

</csvPreferenceInstance>

</NmLoader>

Where csvvalue:

1. b%3A0 - The Welcome Page is displayed for every user.
2. b%3A1 - The Welcome Page is not displayed at all.

windchill wt.load.LoadFromFile -d filename.xml

• The preference can be deleted too.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS258377

[MR_10810161]

Thank you so much for your kind research! That helped.

[avillanueva · Accepted solution]

The checkbox was removed after version 11.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS292318

It looks like they purposely removed it. Steps from @mmeadows-3 might be more than you are looking for but if the user wants to see it, he correctly shows where it is in the QuickLinks. I am not sure you want to customize this to enable for all.