wt.properties file update process

[pcnelson]

Hello,

Last week PTC tech supplied me with some scripts to enable logging and somehow some of the settings for publishing in my wt.properties file are now different than before I ran the commands supplied. I can update the known lines manually, but I am suspicious of any other changes that I didn't accidentally find as well. Can I simply delete the modified wt.properties file, paste in my backup wt.properties file, run xconfmanager –p and be back to pre Tech Support status? Thanks!

[bagul.yogesh]

Following paragraph from Windchill® Customizer’s Guide (9.1) answers your question.

You should not add to or modify wt.properties file directly because it will be hard to maintain your customizations if Windchill is reinstalled or upgraded. Instead, modify this file using either the system configurator client in your Windchill product or the xconfmanager command line utility. These are respectively described in the Administering Runtime Services section of the Windchill System Administrator’s Guide and in the "About the xconfmanager Utility" section of the "Windchill Utilities" chapter on page 6-2.

[pcnelson]

However, if that is the case, why does tech Support ask me to make a backup copy each time? That implies to me that there is a way to restore the backup copy if something should go wrong.

[BenLoosli]

Site.xconf is automatically backed up each time xconfmanager is run. Site.xconf should have all of your modified values to be rolled into wt.properties.

Thank you,

Ben H. Loosli
USEC, INC.

[sdrzewiczewski]

One trick that we did to keep our changes easy to identify and move between environments was to put all of our changes in our own .xconf file and then add an entry in the site.xconf file to load these entries. This way the entries in site.xconf are the OOTB entries.

<configurationref xlink:href="&lt;path" to=" file=">/site_irobot.xconf"/>

Steve D.

[bellj]

Ditto.

joe bell
GSIMS Administrator
GPS Sustainment Information Management System
719-474-8899
bellj@gpssims.com<">mailto:bellj@gpssims.com>