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mdebower18-Opal
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February 11, 2014
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Combine separate WTdocuments into a single iterated one?

  • February 11, 2014
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Hey,

Does anyone know of a method to combine separate WTdocuments into an iterated one? We have a bunch of documents we loaded from a network drive into Windchill as separate documents when they really are iterations of a single document.

For example:
Doc1_revA
Doc1_revB
Doc1_revC
...

Should be:
Doc1 @ version C.2

It would be great if there was something sorta close to OOTB, but I am not going to hold my breath on that one...

-marc




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MikeLockwood22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
February 11, 2014
1. Download all the files. Rename each file on disk to include the version. See below for the only way that I know to do this.

2. Delete all the Windchill documents.

3. Create a new Windchill document at Rev C.2

a. and make the correct file the primary content

b. add all the other files as Attachments, for history

4. From there, handle as any other Windchill document going forward

To download all

* Make another document whose only purpose is to gather those that need to be downloaded

* Under that document, select Structure. Add all below it.

* From that document, select Download all selected (downloads all to a .zip; unzip these)

* Delete the temp document


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Anonymous
February 14, 2014

Marc,



I am not sure if I understood your question/scenario.But there is OOTB loader available to load the multiple Iteration/Revision of single document. attached is the sample load csv and xml file. (you can change loader while loading document from network drive)




Hope this helps !!



Thanks,


Shreyas


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Sriram_Rammohan1-Visitor
1-Visitor
March 14, 2014


Hello Marc,


I belive this clean-up can be done with Custom-CleanUpTool that has to do the following sequentially with good exception handling capabilities ,


1.check-out the latest version of the document


2. get all the latest iteration of all revision of the document


3. fetch the content path in the vault for all the revisions obtained in step 2


4. Attach all the previous contents (determin Primary / secondary) to the Ver C.2 . Check-in document.


5. Refreh & Purge old versions for the document (optional , but good to do)



regards,


Sriram Rammohan

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