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December 9, 2025
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Where-used functionality/report

  • December 9, 2025
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I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 12.1 and Datecode with CPS 12.1.0.2

Our customer requires a report detail list(CSV) of documents that contain links to other documents (details about the XML link and the linked to item). Is there existing functionality in Windchill that we can use (we have access to the Windchill jars and APIs or this may be available on the GUI) to generate this report? What would be the simplest way to generate such a report? The end goal of this it to 'unshare' items that have sufficient differences that they cannot be shared.

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    Marco Tosin
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    Marco Tosin21-Topaz I
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    December 10, 2025

    This article explains how to build a report to extract documents that reference each other.

     

    How to build a Query Builder Report to display the 'Reference Documents' and 'Refrenced By' data of a document in Windchill PDMLink.

     

    However, it is not clear to me what you are trying to achieve.
    Some more detailed explanation would be helpful.

     

    Marco
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      Tusken_Raider_4221716-ContributorAuthor
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      December 10, 2025

      Thank you for your response

       

      The XML manuals contain refs/links to other manuals when they pull in shared content. They need details about the source manual and details about the referenced manual. They need a list of all such links. For this list, they will review the shareability of the referenced section and break the link as desired (thus creating a "non shared" section that can be unique to the document instead of containing generic text). The reasons they are doing this are not my concern :).

       

      Marco Tosin
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      Marco Tosin21-Topaz I
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      December 10, 2025

      But is what you're talking about related to Arbortext?

       

      Because what you've described doesn't seem to refer to Windchill to me.

       

      Marco
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