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November 18, 2019
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Created on date changes upon Revision?

  • November 18, 2019
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I've noticed something today, that was different at my last company and the company before.
It's my recollection that the Created On date is static, being the date a part number (or WTObject) is created.

I've not checked our system until today when I noticed that the Created On date is changing with a new Revision.

Perhaps it was a customization to stay the same at the last company.

Is this expected behavior for most of you folks?


James
Windchill 11.0 M030 CPS08

 

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
November 18, 2019

I am finding that the revision date changes when an object is revised to a new revision level. Iterations change for every check-in. That is OOTB behavior. There is something in the manuals about revisions and what properties change with a new revision and which ones don't.

 

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JHall1-VisitorAuthor
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November 18, 2019

@BenLoosli 

So it seems we must have had the work around detailed in this article. CS197520

 

James

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MikeLockwood22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
November 18, 2019

Considering Revising to be a Create activity, with it's own creation date is consistent with:

- Delete each object refers to each Revision

- ACL for Revise requires create permission at the resulting state (primarily evident when using two-phase lifecycle)

 

The database shows created as static for the master (epmdocumentmaster), but variable for each Revision (supplemented by each Iteration for each Revision).

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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
November 18, 2019

Same behavior here.  Created on follows the revision creation.

 

Created On Dates.png

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lhoogeveen17-Peridot
17-Peridot
November 19, 2019

Out of the box, the 'Created By' and 'Created On' are linked to object Revision - we basically never use it because of that.

  • We've had engineers/designers try to use 'Created By' and 'Created On' in the drawing only to find out that it resets with the next revision.
  • A resetting 'Created On' date makes it difficult to this date within the ModelCheck Condition File to exempt old files from newer stricter rules.
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23-Emerald III
BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
November 19, 2019

We created relations in our start parts that would capture the initial created on date as company_created_date and then used that in the titleblock. The code would also check for a save as that would reset when the revision was set to 0.

 

/* EXTRACT THE DATE PORTION OF THE WINDCHILL TIMESTAMP PARAMS
SHORT_CREATED_ON = EXTRACT(PTC_WM_CREATED_ON,1,10)

 

/* INITIAL RELEASE PARAMETERS
/* SET COMPANY_INITIAL VALUES FOR DRAWING PARAMETERS FROM WINDCHILL
/* ONLY WHEN REV IS 0
if PTC_WM_REVISION == "0"
Company_INITIAL_CREATED_BY = PTC_WM_CREATED_BY
Company_INITIAL_CREATED_ON = SHORT_CREATED_ON
endif

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