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ccertain10-Marble
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October 14, 2015
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How is it possible to rename Thing Shapes, -Templates and Things in ThingWorx without having to delete them?

  • October 14, 2015
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In some cases, after you have created Thing Shapes, Templates, Things and mashups it could appear that you want to change the names because you found out some typographical errors or need to change the existing names from a logical/structural/organization point of view .

Our customer does not want to delete or copy them because there are existing relations between the "Things" themselves and the mashups

Is it planned for a future release?

Thanks

Christoph

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    Aanjan5-Regular Member
    5-Regular Member
    October 14, 2015

    Christoph, direct renaming of entities is unfortunately not available at the moment. The workaround for this is to duplicate the entity and then add the corrected name to them.

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      ccertain10-MarbleAuthor
      10-Marble
      October 14, 2015

      thanks Aanjan! it would be great to know if we have any plans for that.

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      Aanjan5-Regular Member
      5-Regular Member
      October 14, 2015

      This actually has been a long standing feature request. There's no roadmap yet for this feature, but I'll be able to provide you with more information once the Jira is updated or I hear back from the devs. Thanks!

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        jdelaiglesia1-Visitor
        1-Visitor
        October 14, 2015

        hi,

        You can also export your entities and change name in the xml file.

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        Aanjan5-Regular Member
        5-Regular Member
        October 14, 2015

        Although it is possible this way, it is not a good practice and definitely not recommended to change the names in the xml file. Missing one occurrence, or adding unintended special characters might break the import too.

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          CarlesColl1-Visitor
          1-Visitor
          October 15, 2015

          +1 To this feature request.

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            ptc-46531081-Visitor
            1-Visitor
            October 20, 2015

            +1

            I would say copying an renaming is a bad practice because all the service bindings in the Mashups etc. are not copied as well and you have to redo it.

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              jhernández-21-Visitor
              1-Visitor
              January 22, 2018

              +1

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              vxavier5-Regular Member
              5-Regular Member
              January 22, 2018

              +1

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              MariusB5-Regular Member
              5-Regular Member
              February 22, 2018

              Hello,

               

              Isn't it possible to make a modification in the database, if yes what would be the tables which need to be updated,apart from thing_model, what are the logical connections?

               

               

              Best regards,

               

              Marius

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              posipova20-Turquoise
              20-Turquoise
              February 22, 2018

              The answer to this thread from the officially supported PTC perspective has not change: it is currenly not possible to rename existing entities. 

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              Erik2512-Amethyst
              12-Amethyst
              June 20, 2018

              +1 push
              the workaround and dublicated things takes a long time.

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