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BernardWielfaer1-Visitor
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October 14, 2013
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Remove attachments when doing Revision

  • October 14, 2013
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We keep a dxf file as attachment to the drawing A. When doing revision the attachment of the A versionis copyed to the new B revision. If the process that should generate a new B-version dxf fails we end up with a wrong A version dxf file attached to the B version of the drawing. How can we automatically delete that attachment when doing revision ?


Regards,
Bernard

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tmcnaney14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
October 15, 2013

Not exactly what you are asking, but worth metioning and investigating.


There is a Windchill Preference to determine handling of secondary contentwhen Help Center.

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BernardWielfaer1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 16, 2013

I don't find this in Windchill 9.1, is this only introduced from version 10 on maybe ?


Regards,
Bernard

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dgraham-41-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 18, 2013

Bernard,


I don't think there is an OOTB way to do this however, I have coded our workflow such that inappropriate content (was well as inappropriate associations) are deleted.


To delete the content, either Primary of Secondary (attachments), you can delete either the HolderToContent link or the ApplicationData.


David Graham



In Reply to Bernard Wielfaert:



We keep a dxf file as attachment to the drawing A. When doing revision the attachment of the A versionis copyed to the new B revision. If the process that should generate a new B-version dxf fails we end up with a wrong A version dxf file attached to the B version of the drawing. How can we automatically delete that attachment when doing revision ?


Regards,
Bernard


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BernardWielfaer1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 19, 2013

David,


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praseeth.moothe1-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 21, 2013


Bernard,


2 approaches could be

1) Have a workflow triggered from the initial state (state which the new revision goes into). Use code inside the workflow to delete the attachments.

2) Have an event listener on the revise event, which will delete the attachments.
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Arjen12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
October 10, 2016

We are looking for the same functionality: don't copy over the attached secondary documents at revise. Any solutions available that we can reuse without reinventing the wheel? I would be very interested!

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