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Anonymous
December 12, 2012
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Workspace Save-As disallowed for modified objects

  • December 12, 2012
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Here is a scenario that comes up now and then:
User checks-out a drawing and model(s) and makes modifications.
Manager tell user that the changes are too extensive, and that a new part number is required.


User want to do a WorkSpace Save-As, but is disallowed because the models and drawing are modified.
If they had not been modified, the Save-As is allowed.


Is there a way to get around/override this behavior in Windchill Intralink 9.1?
(with Creo Elements Pro 5)



Gerry Champoux
Williams International
Walled Lake, MI

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DanielReid12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
December 13, 2012
This behavior is still in Windchill 10.0. I've complained to PTC about
it. I think I managed to find time to put in an enhancement request.


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ocorten-212-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
December 13, 2012
Hi Gerry and others,

This is something our Engineers struggle with very often as well.
They now tend to rename the parts in ProE (config option: let_proe_rename_pdm_objects yes).

At Planet PTC 2012 in Orlando I spoke with a Windchill PLM and posed the exact same use case.

He told me that this should be possible with the next release of Windchill, internally called X24 (WC 11?), where an Upload of Changed Objects should be possible.

Go vote for this idea on
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    kjohns1011-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    December 13, 2012

    This was one of the intralink to windchill shortcomings I found in 2010 and presented to PTC at the 2010 conference and here we still are, my enhancement request like yours will go into the black hole,I wonder how many would just like our old intralink 3.4 back?

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    jfrankovich12-Amethyst
    12-Amethyst
    December 13, 2012
    I was one of several people talking to PTC on this issue along with Olaf and we were definitely encouraged to vote this issue up if we wanted it to have a good chance of happening.
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    TomU23-Emerald IV
    23-Emerald IV
    December 13, 2012
    Is there some trick to viewing this? I just get "Not Found". Logging in makes no difference.

    Tom U.

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    bfrandsen10-Marble
    10-Marble
    December 14, 2012
    If the user really has Checked Out the objects they can be uploaded. After that the Save As is possibly from the Workspace.
    But if Checkout is not allowed, upload is neither.
    One workaround is to export and import into a new Workspace and do a Rename before upload.

    I am looking forward to the allowed upload of non-Checked Out objects to get the Server side backup of all modified objects in the local cache.

    /Bjarne
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    DamianCastillo1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    December 14, 2012

    The link does not work either way.


    If you delete the /1300 you can get into the ideas page but the topic is not found. Maybe this is why the original link is not working.


    I don't think it was removed because they are going to do it since one of the filters is called "Implementation in Process".


    So does this mean it's already implemented?


    "Too many people walk around like Clark Kent, because they don't realize they can Fly like Superman"

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    DamianCastillo1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    December 14, 2012
    Olaf,

    I finally got in after several attempts at logging in. I had to go to a
    different page on the site to log-in and then go back to the link you
    provided. I added my vote to the idea.

    Thanks

    Damian Castillo
    CAD & Administration Manager
    Engineering Department
    Hensley Industries






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