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I am curious what goes on behind the scenes with using trustedHosts setting. I am knee deep in on playing with SSO but still have some accounts that are not using SSO (not AD). This help doc points to using trustedHost parameter:  https://support.ptc.com/help/wnc/r12.1.1.0/en/index.html#page/Windchill_Help_Center/WVSPrintManagement/WVSVisualizationFormbasedAuthentication.html Seems like doing this, I can remove the password from auth.properties for my publishing user. From what I knew before with basic auth, the creds would get passed to the CAD worker with would start a Creo session and register a workspace just like a normal user. I would expect that to hit the webserver which is configured for SSO. What black magic occurred since it appears like Windchill trusts all connections from that host? How did it not get blocked by the webserver?  I may need to explain for our security folks. Is there any other alternate configurations for the publishing user when configured for SS

The PDFs are sent to the attachment section. For example, there are four PDFs created in sequence, but later a user inserts a PDF between them, for instance, between 1 and 2, and assigns it a sheet number of 2. However, because it was originally a PDF with a page order of 5, it naturally appears at the end instead of between 1 and 3. I developed an intermediate application in C# that scans the incoming PDFs using OCR, rearranges them according to the sheet number, and converts them back into a PDF. However, I couldn't find an API that allows me to upload this modified PDF back into Windchill. How can I send or replace this modified PDF in the Attachment section of the relevant drawing in EPMDocument? I couldn't find a way when I looked at the REST APIs in WRS. Could you help with this?

Currently using Windchill 12.1.2.0 with Creo 9.0.5.0 I reviewed drawings and parts with a colleague that I added to my workspace. He made changes to those parts but there were no indications in my workspace that anything was out-of-date. Selecting Tools → Synchronize or Refresh Workspace didn't change anything. Only when I selected Update and manually updated the parts did I get the latest versions. This worked, but my issue is that I wouldn't know to do this unless I knew that changes were made. I remember in the past that my workspace would indicate when parts were out-of-date. Is there something I can do to get that functionality back?

Version: Windchill 12.1 Use Case: Contributor License is granted for creating document but not for "Set State" actions.Description: Hello experts, As said in use case, contributor is able to create document but is not granted for "Set State" action.Author license is the minimal for the Set State action. Is it an acceptable workaround to create an action that send the created document in a workflow were an expression will "Set State" to this document ?  Thank you for your help. 

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 11.1 and Datecode with CPS M020Creo操作问题 Translated by the moderation using Google Translate -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Creo Operation Problems

Hi Team,Facing a challenge in Target Release State.The target release state in Change Notice gets auto-change to other state on submitting CNEg:Target Released State available ; Developlment, Released.When select Released as target, it auto changes to develompment on submitting CN.Any references would be of great help.WC version: 12.0.2.3  

Version: Windchill 12.0 Use Case: You try to add a license to a Windchill Server and the ThingWorx Device ID is missing.Description: You go to license Management within Windchill, to the Settings-tab and copy your "License Host ID".You go to https://my.ptc.com/licensing/dashboard to wait for some time, you click onto your Recent Orders, click the checkbox of a license, add the quantity in the next screen, wait again.There is no host, because, no idea why, it's just stupid.You click on "Add New Licensing Host".Mandatory: "Licensing Host Name" There is no decription if that is an official term from PTC or a freely changable field that they just want to have, for whatever reason.Then there is "Windchill Device ID". That term is new.The little "i" guides you to, title, "Device ID for Windchill" (Did they link a wrong document? That seems to be something else.)In there (CS412695), the terms "Device ID", "Machine ID", "Host ID" and "Windchill's Device ID" are usedTo PTC:

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 13.0 and Datecode with CPS 13.0.2.0When the IDE to build project，it show the message as blowjava: requires Windchill Information Modeler to compile

Version: Windchill 11.0Description: The page occasionally requires refreshing the browser and loading for about a minute to display data correctly. Upon checking the MethodServer logs, the following information is found:caught cache server call exceptionjava.rmi.RemoteException: Unable to get remote cache entry; nested exception is:java.rmi.ServerError: Error occurred in server thread; nested exception is:java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class wt.project._RoleHowever, in reality, the relevant class does exist on the server, and programs that import the relevant class can execute normally.

Version: Windchill 12.1 Use Case: Already, we are using default version scheme of Windchill as 1.1.Description: We need to change the version scheme to 01.01.So is this possible for Windchill? If it is possible, does anyone have a manual or solution to change the version  scheme as we need?Thanks for help.Salih

This is a nebulous problem I've been dealing with for months. It could be totally unrelated to the CAD Worker and related to some other program or security suite that was installed. Win Server 2019. I have all my CAD workers, Worker Daemons, etc, setup on different ports, different virtual hostnames, different folders so and 1 worker per instance. Production has 3 Creo Workers, Allegro Cadence, Doc Worker and Thumbnail worker.   What seems like clockwork, every 6-7 days publishing just halts. I've clear logs, .wf and related folders to reset to a clean state. Stopped worker daemons, manually stopped and restarted workers. I am pretty sure this is not related to Windchill side. What I do know is rebooting the Win Server 2019 VM fixes the issue and without any other changes, publishing resumes normally for the next 6-7 days.   The worker logs go as far as to state Starting PROE and that's it.  They eventually move into a failed state. I checked Event Viewer but could not f

Currently, a context manager (Product, Library or Project) can use Configure Actions for Roles to allow other roles to Modify the Team.The problem is that whatever role is allowed to modify the team can then add themselves to the context manager role.On a lesser concern, they could also add users to Roles that they are not qualified to complete tasks assigned to that Role in a workflow.Does anyone know if it is possible to restrict users from being added to a given role (Product manager, Library Manager)? 

Version: Windchill 12.1   Use Case: I need to gather user inputs in a Wizard. Description: Thanks to @avillanueva and @BjoernRueegg and this post https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill-Customization/Likely-very-simple-question-about-input-on-wizards/m-p/865207#M1969%3Fsource=search I am in the process of creating my own AttributePanelConfig.   My problem is that I can't find the right combination of ComponentType so the label and the input are aligned horizontally. So far all I can get is aligned vertically. Screenshot of what I am getting: and screen shot of the ootb New Part wizard attributes, note the Label and the input are aligned horizontally, which is how I want mine to look like:   The following is what I am using for buildComponentConfig() and buildComponentData()   @Override public ComponentConfig buildComponentConfig(ComponentParams params) throws WTException { ComponentConfigFactory factory = getCo

Is there a way to update a PDF in a CAD document with a PDF in a drawing using a REST API in Windchill? If so, which API should I use? Could you provide me with information on this?As an example, how can I update the PDF indicated in the image?

is there any helper classes for BaseLinedPlan and BaselinedPlanActivity in windchill

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 11.0 and Datecode with CPS M030-CPS141、BOM结构对比结果以行号进行排序，希望对比结果“无对等对象”也按行号排序进行展示2、目前当结构上行号相同，但差异项结果为“无对等对象”时，未按行号进行排序，此类场景在结构最末尾展示3、当两个不同的零部件进行BOM结构对比时，希望将相同行号在一行进行展示   Translated by the moderation using Google Translate ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The BOM structure comparison results are sorted by line number. It is hoped that the comparison result "No equivalent object" can also be displayed in order by line number2. Currently, when the line numbers in the structure are the same, but the difference item result is "No equivalent object", it is not sorted by line number. Such scenes are displayed at the end of the structure3. When two different parts are compared in BOM structure, it is hoped that the same line numbers will be displayed in one line

Version: Windchill 12.0   Use Case: I have a slightly advanced setup of a reverse proxy handling SSL https and the external facing hostname for users and the internal PTC Apache server configured with HTTP and a virtual hostname known only on that server (not in DNS) . The shibboleth metadata file that was generated exposes that internal virtual hostname and my IDP requires reply and login urls to be https. Where did I good this? Description: @jbailey you might know this off the top of your head.  For discussions sake, say my system DNS addressable host is pdmlink-test.mycompany.com and the internal name is pdm12.mycompany.com. I've installed shibboleth to my windchill server, configured it, defined an entityID that is "https://pdmlink-test.my company.com/shibboleth" and it is talking to my IDP. We got an error from the IDP when login was redirected that the replyURL did not match. Checking the metadata file, all the location attributes are showing "http://pdm12.my

Hi avillanueva, Hi took Affected Objects from getChangeablesBefore(); but now I am facing an issue to get On Order, Disposition comment Work in progress and Finished. To take get these values I am using AffectedActivityData affectedActivityData = (AffectedActivityData) Object; but its not working. Please help .  

Version: Windchill 12.0 Use Case: In my organization we have characters that we cannot use in the part number (not auto-generated). The list is way shorter then what the legal list is. We would like to constrain the attribute Number with an illegal value list.Description: Is there some way to revert the Legal value list to an illegal value list? How can we constrain the attribute in the most easy way? 

Version: Windchill 12.0 Use Case: Using Windchill 12.0.2.7. and undergoing a rehost procedure from a source to a target instance. The source is not clustered and the target is clustered.Description: File vaults will not validate when set to the proper UNC path instead are defaulting to the local vault instance. I am under the impression that vault configuration data may be stored in the database and may have been wiped, potentially looking at how to restore the proper settings. Looking for any documentation on the procedure to follow in this environment configuration. Thank you.

Version: Windchill 12.1 Use Case: Fetch all the Family Table data corresponding to a given Generic/Instance CAD part.Description: We want an Windchill API to fetch the cell values of a FamilyTable/FamilyTree corresponding to instance/generic CAD document.

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 10.2 and Datecode with CPS M030-CPS11hello.We are currently troubleshooting an issue with WinDU operation for upgrades.A first party issue occurs in the CabinetBased Data Container Alignment Report in System Health Check during WinDU operation.To fix this, I run Fix CabinetBased Data Container Alignment in Winru, but it only partially fixes it.Here are the errors that I faced CabinetBasedDataContainerAlignmentRT.log   Object in container Kis_Lib:38971109 Cabinet in container Kis_Project:82100010 Subfolder of object is in container Kis_Project while object is in container Kis_Lib:38971109.There is not enough information to fix. Further investigation is needed. 

I am using Windchill ProjectLink Release 11.1 and Datecode with CPS M020-CPS27We are unable to get any Windchill users (other than those with administrator privileges) setup with the ability to share any objects from PDM to ProjectLink ("Share to Project"). We are seeking to learn the access controls required, and the level in which the access controls need to be set at.The objects we are trying to share are CAD objects (Creo files), and the users are Team Members to the Projects and have already Joined the projects.The error message we receive states:FAILURE: Ineligible objects selected. The object(s) you selected is ineligible for Add to Project, or you do not have access to the object(s).Here are the errors that I facedFAILURE: Ineligible objects selected. The object(s) you selected is ineligible for Add to Project, or you do not have access to the object(s).

Use case: I have a Part Structure. I want to add all the Parts and associated EPMDocuments available in the structure, Add the structure into the workspace and then do check out all the EPMDocuments from the workspace. What i did :private void checkoutDocument(EPMDocument document) throws WTException, WTPropertyVetoException {try {System.out.println("Checking out document: " + document.getNumber());if (!WorkInProgressHelper.isCheckedOut(document)) {// Get the current user's checkout folderFolder checkoutFolder = WorkInProgressHelper.service.getCheckoutFolder();// CheckoutLink chilink = WorkInProgressHelper.service.checkout(document, checkoutFolder, "Check out comment");CheckoutLink chilink = WorkInProgressHelper.service.checkout(document, checkoutFolder, WorkspaceName)wt.epm.EPMDocument wrk = (wt.epm.EPMDocument)chilink.getWorkingCopy();System.out.println("Document checked out successfully: " + wrk.getIdentity());} else {System.out.println("Document is already checked out.");}} ca

Hello, Besides assigning yourself as one of the Reviewers and waiting until everyone else has signed off on a PR, is there a way to "self-demote" a PR? For example, you push it through and then realize you made a mistake on a drawing. In our current workflow, we have to ask one of the reviewers to mark their task as rework. Is there a way to do this yourself? Thanks!