How to Create a Baseline Programmatically

Toby,

Sorry I should have warned you, programming windchill is like pulling at a ball of tangled string, it quickly gets messy if you are not-experienced. Anyway I can give you a little help, I suggest testing code in a little main as follows. If you progress down this path further, think about externalizing and correctly managing code.

1. Put the attached file (below) here

src\net\wincomco\windchill\test

2. Compile it from a Windchill shell

javac -d %WT_HOME%\codebase -classpath %CLASSPATH%;%WT_HOME%\srclib\tool\Annotations.jar W:\ptc\Windchill\src\net\wincomco\windchill\test\CreateBaseline.java

3. Run it

windchill net.wincomco.windchill.test.CreateBaseline MyBaseline

4. It prints the oid of the new baseline e.g. wt.vc.baseline.ManagedBaseline:1094588729

5. Use the URL to find it (note your number will be different)

http://myhost/Windchill/app/#ptc1/tcomp/infoPage?oid=OR:wt.vc.baseline.ManagedBaseline:1094588729

6. It will be created in the Site > Folders, you need to start to learn how to create it where you want and populate it

You can transpose the code to workflows once you have it working

Simon

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package net.wincomco.windchill.test;

import wt.vc.baseline.ManagedBaseline;

public class CreateBaseline {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
System.out.println("Start....");
String name = args[0];
ManagedBaseline myManagedBaseline = ManagedBaseline.newManagedBaseline();
myManagedBaseline.setName(name);
myManagedBaseline = (ManagedBaseline)wt.fc.PersistenceHelper.manager.save(myManagedBaseline);
System.out.println("===> myManagedBaseline " +myManagedBaseline);
}

}