External Enum Value List

Hi @EC_10581209 

Thank you for your question! 

I’d like to recommend to bring more details and context to your initial inquiry. For example:

• Where are you planning to store or retrieve the external enum values from (e.g., XML file, database, external system)?
• Have you already created the attribute in the Type and Attribute Manager, and are you trying to link it to the external enum now?
• How do you want the CAS number to appear—automatically based on the selected material, or as a separate selectable field?

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Best regards,

@EC_10581209 , I think your best bet is to write a utility where you can add values to the Global Enumeration from a file.

I looked in my toolbox and found a few classes I'd written in 2016 for a company to do just that.

I recall them using it to populate enumerations.  It's bombproof.

I also recall figuring this out was not simple.  There's quite a bit going on under the hood.

You can either list all existing Global Enumerations

or

You can specify the Global Enumeration and a file (cvs or text) containing the values to add to the enumeration.

You can run in test mode too which does NOT store values to the dB or in save mode which will store values to the dB.

The help looks like this.

Take a look at below , it requires implementing a EnumerationInfoProvider 

 https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/r13.1.0.0/en/index.html#page/Windchill_Help_Center/customization/WCCG_Serv_EnumeratedTypes_ExtEnumValList.html