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slawson1-Visitor
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March 25, 2013
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Windchill - Login and Logout Easily

  • March 25, 2013
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This is a neat trick I use when developing.

In Windchill it is difficult to 'logout' and then login as another user. To get around this create two browser bookmarks with url format as:

http://username1:password1@windchill-server.ptcnet.ptc.com/Windchill/app/

http://username2:password2@windchill-server.ptcnet.ptc.com/Windchill/app/

This adds the username and password into the http request, so the user is not prompted. This has the added benefit that you can jump user easily in Windchill if you store the url as a bookmark.

This is really useful for demos!

This is an example of one of my bookmarks:

bookmark.png

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    vmg1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    April 8, 2013

    Hi Stephen Lawson ,

    I cant set this.

    it says windows cant find "http://demo.demo@pc158218.ptc.com/Windchill/app/"

    am i doing something wrong in the url ?

    thank you

    vijayan

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    MatthewKnight1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    April 8, 2013

    colon (:) between username and password, not period (.)

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    vmg1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    April 8, 2013

    http://demo:demo@pc158218.ptc.com/Windchill/app/

    tried this one too.. same error

    stephen has mentioned like windchill-server- what is it?

    please Matthew Knight, can u provide solution to

    http://communities.ptc.com/message/201245#201245

    Thank you

    vijayan

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      ptc-48646031-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      April 19, 2013

      I think you need to change the address after the @ symbol to the address of your server.

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        vmg1-Visitor
        1-Visitor
        April 19, 2013

        ya i got it now.

        i was trying this in Internet expolrer. but it does not work in IE.

        It works in mozilla firefox.

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        ks-28-Gravel
        8-Gravel
        May 15, 2013

        Nice trick. But why dont you use New Session to login in to different user in IE? or Multiple profiles in Chrome?

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        pwyndham1-Visitor
        1-Visitor
        May 21, 2013

        I also found this works in Chrome but not in IE. Works nice, thanks.

        Marco Tosin
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        Marco Tosin21-Topaz I
        21-Topaz I
        June 12, 2015

        In the old PTC/User forum there was another idea, to create a button logout.

        In this way, when you click on this button, the system it prompts again for username and password.

        javascript:window.location.href=window.location.href.replace(/:\/\//,"://dummy@");window.location.reload();

        Logout.PNG

        Marco
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        breed12-Amethyst
        12-Amethyst
        June 12, 2015

        Nice trick but just so readers know this is unsecure as it saves your credentials in text where anyone with access to your system could find it.

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        BineshKumar11-Visitor
        1-Visitor
        June 12, 2015

        Windchill 10.1 and 10.2 has form based authentication support. This will provide a default button for log out. You can also go one step further and do a SSO configuration

        Thanks

        Binesh

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