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Is it possible to open a document for viewing from within WC (8.0) without having to log into an account? The reason I ask is that we store all of our business processes and QA documentation in WC and we’d like everyone to be able to access them as and when needed. (At the moment, duplicate files are stored on a (rather bad) intranet). However, the number of employees exceeds our licence count.
Can anyone recommend a solution to this delimma?
Many thanks
Also You can use custom java programm whitch work as Windchill browser. That will use single license and not limited amount of user.
But all user will view windchill objects on whitch have acess user under which custom programm connected on server.
My suggestion is to talk to your PTC or VAR account manager about view/print licensing for "extended" internal users.
External licensing obviously doesn't apply to internal users (and, yes, this is auditable). I believe using a "virtual" account for access is in violation of the EULA and obviously does not support role/user-based access control nor the ability to track who has accessed information in the system. I think you will find more prevalence of view/print licensing since it is often sold inconjunction with the Windchill Web Parts for SharePoint module which is designed to proliferate data through the SharePoint environment (which is a terrific way to share valuable PLM data to "extended users" outside of core engineering).
There may be rules around heavy/light/qvp licensing ratios along with economies of scale considerations, so you really need to talk to your individual account manager...
Steve
Could you share the complete sql code? I have an excel file that will let users query windchill but the user must login. This is not ideal due to cost.
may want to check out this thread:
http://portal.ptcuser.org/p/fo/st/topic=16&post=87264#p87264
Quite some time ago I played around with this and was able to retreive drawings published in windchill from a command line prompt. No windchill user interface needed.