New set up strategy
Go easy with me, this is our first look at the World of Windchill. Here we go....
We just gained access to a PTC server with PDMLink and ProjectLink on an Education License - Winchill 9.1 soon to migrate to 10
We are a University department with 370 students and 8 staff who have an account on the server.
The students are in 3 groups - Year 1, 2 and 3
Each member needs a simple workspace for simple parts and small assemblies - all very light weight.
Staff need to be able to access students work but students can't access other students work unless they are given permission.
Students will sometimes be workingon small group projects - max 10 members.
So what I'm trying to get my head around is the quickest, most efficient method to set up a workspace for each student.
Initial consultation seems to suggest that ProjectLink will be more appropriate?
If so, do I;
a. set up a project for every student? sounds like a lot of work as feedback suggest there is no way to do this en masse or automate it- I would have to repeat the process 378 times
b. create fewer projects which have lots of members. Could the members then create their own folders? Can the permissions be worked out easily for the students folders - staff but not other students?
Or is there a way I can get them to set up there own workspaces, say if I include everyone in an initial project and does that them allow them to set up their own projects? somehow? maybe?....clutching at straws.......?
Any comments, suggestions, (offers to come to sunny Leicestershire and sort it out for me before term starts on Monday!) gratefully recieved,
Cheers, Sean