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Identification of "Active" Products in PDMLink?

  • May 17, 2024
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Version: Windchill 12.0

 

Use Case: Windchill contains many product containers for many programs. Some of them are still Active, but many of them are Inactive and only open for data sharing. How to quickly and easily identify "Active" products in the portfolio?


Description:

What are people using as a best practice to identify Active Products in Windchill vs. Inactive Products in Windchill?

 

Windchill does not allow out of the box modification of the Products page with table views, so it shows All products all the time based on container team membership. The only work-around is to tag a product as a Favorite ⭐ and show the Favorite column in the table on a user-by-user basis. Another option is to create and maintain a customization for the table.

We have many product containers in Windchill, some for Active programs and many for Inactive programs that remain open for data sharing between products. With the exception of favorites, I am struggling with an effective way to tag, identify and display the "state" of a Product since Windchill Products are not state driven.

We can create attributes for a Product, but I am not aware of a way to expose them in the table view for the Products page, only add them to a layout so they are visible on the Details page which most people never visit.

I am considering a naming convention for the Description field, but I am not a big fan of repurposing a field for multiple uses with a naming convention. Curious what others might be doing?

    Best answer by avillanueva

    Well, I must have solved this back in '10. Definition is stored in BLOBS against the TABLEVIEWDESCRIPTOR table. This is why I could not find and custom code or configuration setting.

    avillanueva_0-1715958514824.png

    This seems to be the clue: https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS286188?source=search

    There should be a way to export, modify then import the table column definition. It appears to be an XML file.

     

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    23-Emerald III
    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    May 17, 2024

    Rename the product itself to indicate it is an inactive product?

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      Hari_Vara16-Pearl
      16-Pearl
      June 6, 2024

      Hi,

      It would have been nice if Product container too has a Lifecycle. I know its difficult to modify the data model architecture of the container at this stage of a matured application like Windchill. But  users will like that function.

       

      Or an easier one is to have a glyph stating an Icon for Active, and other for Inactive. Make it available in the Product page OOTB.

      Should I create the idea for this?

      Best Regards

      Hari

      avillanueva
      23-Emerald I
      avillanueva23-Emerald I
      23-Emerald I
      May 17, 2024

      I know its possible but I did this so long ago, I forgot how.

      avillanueva_0-1715956314136.png

      PID is an IBA I added to the Product object so this means its possible. I need to do some research but I think it was related to modifying the internal view that gets stored somewhere. 

       

      avillanueva
      23-Emerald I
      avillanueva23-Emerald IAnswer
      23-Emerald I
      May 17, 2024

      Well, I must have solved this back in '10. Definition is stored in BLOBS against the TABLEVIEWDESCRIPTOR table. This is why I could not find and custom code or configuration setting.

      avillanueva_0-1715958514824.png

      This seems to be the clue: https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS286188?source=search

      There should be a way to export, modify then import the table column definition. It appears to be an XML file.

       

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