Workspace cleanup

[BenLoosli]

Preparing my users for an upgrade from Windchill/PDMLink 9 to 10 and want some feedback on a best practice.

As part of the upgrade, all workspaces MUST be deleted before I do the upgrade. What is the cleanest method for the users to remove their workspaces? I have asked them to do the 3 steps below. As I was thinking some more, is step 2 needed for a clean workspace delete? Will deleting the workspace only cause issues with marking the files as being removed from the workspace?

1) Check-in or undo checkout all files

2) Open each workspace and remove all files

3) Delete the now empty workspace

[Sriram_Rammohan]

Hello ,

There is a clean-up tool (utility) avaialble with PTC which can be used to automate the WS clean up.

Sriram Rammohan

[Sriram_Rammohan]

Its a tool called windchill com.ptc.cust.wsdelete.DeleteWorkspaces.

You can also customise based on your req. however the core logic remains same ,

EPMWorkspaceHelper.manager.getWorkspaces(localWTUser, null);

wher localETUser is the user whose WS needs a clean-up.Prior to deleting you can also purge/delete the contents in the WS.

Sriram Rammohan