Deleting latest iterations with WTPart Content associations
Version: Windchill 13.0
Use Case: Unable to delete latest iteration of CAD documents and WTPart when WTPart has a Content association to a CAD document in Windchill 13.0.2.
Description:
A few weeks ago, I opened a support case with PTC for an issue where we cannot delete the latest iterations of CAD documents and WTPart when the WTPart has a Content association to one or more of the CAD documents. The case was closed as "works to product specification for Windchill PDMLink" (related article: Article - CS456009 - Unable to delete latest iteration of CAD Document due to referential integrity error in Windchill PDMLink).
Here's a scenario:
- Check in Creo model (asm or prt) and drawing, generating WTPart either during checkin or afterward, or use existing objects.
- WTPart is associated to Creo model as Owner and associated to Creo drawing as Content. All objects are version A.1.
- Check out the model and drawing in Creo workspace, open (or modify otherwise), save, check in. All objects now show version A.2 (WTPart was automatically iterated when the Owner CAD document was checked in).
- Attempt to delete the latest iterations of the WTPart and CAD documents.
In the scenario above, both of the WTPart versions (A.1 and A.2) Related Objects tab shows a Content association to the latest Creo drawing, A.2. In Windchill 13.0.2, this prevents me from deleting the latest iterations (if I want to remove the A.2 versions of the WTPart and Creo files). The error is "Cannot delete described by "xxxxx.drw, A.2" that describes following versions : xxxxx, A.1 (Design)"
I could swear I've been able to delete latest iterations with Content associations in the past, maybe before we upgraded from Windchill 12 to 13. Can someone out there using a Windchill version prior to 13 do a quick test to see if you have the same issue?
Thanks!