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pcnelson1-Visitor
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March 12, 2013
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wt.properties file update process

  • March 12, 2013
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Hello,


Last week PTC tech supplied me with some scripts to enable logging and somehow some of the settings for publishing in my wt.properties file are now different than before I ran the commands supplied. I can update the known lines manually, but I am suspicious of any other changes that I didn't accidentally find as well. Can I simply delete the modified wt.properties file, paste in my backup wt.properties file, run xconfmanager –p and be back to pre Tech Support status? Thanks!

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bagul.yogesh1-Visitor
1-Visitor
March 12, 2013

Following paragraph from Windchill® Customizer’s Guide (9.1) answers your question.


You should not add to or modify wt.properties file directly because it will be hard to maintain your customizations if Windchill is reinstalled or upgraded. Instead, modify this file using either the system configurator client in your Windchill product or the xconfmanager command line utility. These are respectively described in the Administering Runtime Services section of the Windchill System Administrator’s Guide and in the "About the xconfmanager Utility" section of the "Windchill Utilities" chapter on page 6-2.

pcnelson1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
March 12, 2013

However, if that is the case, why does tech Support ask me to make a backup copy each time? That implies to me that there is a way to restore the backup copy if something should go wrong.

BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
March 12, 2013
Site.xconf is automatically backed up each time xconfmanager is run. Site.xconf should have all of your modified values to be rolled into wt.properties.

Thank you,

Ben H. Loosli
USEC, INC.
    sdrzewiczewski10-Marble
    10-Marble
    March 12, 2013
    One trick that we did to keep our changes easy to identify and move between environments was to put all of our changes in our own .xconf file and then add an entry in the site.xconf file to load these entries. This way the entries in site.xconf are the OOTB entries.

    <configurationref xlink:href="&lt;path" to=" file=">/site_irobot.xconf"/>

    Steve D.
      bellj1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      March 13, 2013
      Ditto.

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