Windchill

Check out this video on Using Windchill "Windchill For You" from PTC Application EngineersPresenters: Ryan Butcher (Solution Consulting, Fellow).Original Date Presented: November 15, 2023 To dive deeper into the subject, check out What's New in Windchill PLM  

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 12.0 and Datecode with CPS 12.0.2.10When creating a promotion request, selecting certain workflow processes on the "Select Participants" step results in the "Participant List" showing a completely blank table, regardless of the table view selected. The roles of the related workflow are not present and users are not selectable. Other workflow processes work properly. This issue does NOT occur if the user is in the Product Manager role. Need to determine the cause.No errors observed in MethodServer logs at time of creating the issue.

For Creo Parametric, I would like to store the "Controlled" versions of files in Windchill (Primarily things like symbols and manikin configuration files)  but have Windchill do a nightly or hourly write of those files to shared network locations so that the common Robocopy method can be used to pull the files to the users local machines.   (Creo has slow down issues when reading symbols and manikin poses from Windchill directly).    Is this possible?  Can I be pointed to the correct terminology or relevant help files.     Even better would be if there is a way for Windchill to update the users local Creo Parametric files without needed to use RoboCopy.   Thanks for any help or direction. (Using Creo 9 and Windchill 12.  But should be moving to W13 soon)

I am having one Windchill 12.1.2 installed and running on my PC with SQL Server. I want to install another Windchill 12.0 server on same server with Oracle Database. I have created separate oracle DB for same. Do I need to create new DS as well or I can use already existing DS? Also Can I keep already installed instance running during new installation? Other than this what other pre-requisites I should take care. I am looking for tips and hints from others who have done something similar. 

I have a user who would like to roll back a new part to yesterday.  It is new, so never checked in.  Is there a way to roll back a new part in a Workspace?

Hi Everyone,Can we get the APPROVERED_BY/APPROVERED_DATE & REVIEWED_BY/REVIEWED_DATE watermark .ini format. Is there any possibility. Regards,Amir

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 12.1 and Datecode with CPS 12.1.2.2I get a Windchill Error when searching after leaving browser alone for a time period of about 20 minutes or more.Here are the errors that I have in the browser window.Status Code: 500Message: Cannot restore "wt.query.SearchHistory. 198022734" because it no longer exists.This isn't the only 12.1.2.2 issues we are seeing with the GUI.

Hi, I noticed that the columns with dates and time are not formatted the same in my report. Is there a way to format date and time properties in a Report Template in Query Builder? I thought maybe a database function or a java method would help, but I can not figure out which.  Thank you,Maria

As per the original post.    Hi Tom,   I am in the process of upgrading from 12.0 to 12.1. I've done everything to install the target windchill system, including deploying customizations, running the custom column length command, and running the addcolumns tool. Our source database runs under schema user "WFUSER" and our target database was installed (on a separate host) under "WVUSER." I tried following the steps for importing to a different target schema username, but we keep running into issues with data being skipped. Any chance you know what the proper steps are here? Do I need to drop the "WVUSER" schema on the target (even though that's where our target application is installed to) and recreate using the <WT_HOME>/db/sql/create_user.sql? Should I be importing the source to the target under username "WFUSER" and do I need to use the create_user.sql script prior to doing that? The upgrade guides are extremely confusing to me on this subject. Any help is apprec

We have our Windchill servers deployed in Windows environments and have been stuck using command prompt and batch files to manage our servers...  Not too long ago, we started on a journey of pipeline based configuration using Azure Devops.   Officially PTC says they don't support Powershell.https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS323668?&language=en&posno=3&q=powershell&source=searchBut I think I figured out how to at least get the environment variables from that handy windchill2.bat script.   foreach ($line in $(cmd.exe /c "E:\ptc\Windchill\bin\windchill2.bat setenv && set")) { [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable($line.split("=")[0], $line.split("=")[1], [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Process) }   Comment below on how you're managing your deployments?  What language(s) are you using?

Has anyone found a way to set the default Bind DN for OpenDJ? It defaults to "CN=Directory Manager" and I would like it to default to "CN=Manager" instead. 

In our EDR change task workflow, there is a setup participants task where someone picks a review team and that team is properly restricted to those who can see the context.  But sometimes our users go to the Members list and add users directly to the review team role.  Adding on the Members is not restricted in the same way as the workflow and they could add someone they should not have been able to choose (the unsecure person could not see any details of the EDR or its objects, but they did get the task and could blindly approve it). Can the Members area be view-only?  Is there a permission to restrict it?  I setup a read-only user such that they can't edit a certain document but can still modify the Members list.

Creo 4.0 M070 Windchill 11.0 M030   We are getting a Windchill error when we want to upload a modified generic: Document does not have IBA definition: document=_instance_name_, column(item)=ARTIKELNUMMER   The error points to one of the instances and to one of the User Defined Parameters inside that part (our own "articlenumber"). "articlenumber" is one of the columns in our family table. "articlenumber" is also a designated parameter (and it is being used in thousands of other parts without any trouble).   So Windchill refuses to upload that part... So I remove that column from the family table...Windchill still refuses to upload that part. So I remove the parameter completely from that part...Windchill uploads that part with no issues! So I re-add the parameter to the part (marking it as designated), re-add it to the family table...Windchill uploads the part with no issues!   Does any one have any clue what is going on?   P.s. We do not use WTParts.

I have a Spring scheduled method in Windchill and want to call some methods, but i get the erro that there is no active method context. So I tried to call the method via RemoteMethodServer.invoke(). This actually works but i always get the following error in the log:2023-12-07 10:44:13,675 ERROR [pool-14-thread-1] wt.method.client  - RemoteMethodServer.invoke() called on default method server from within method server! Probable bad loopback code! java.lang.Exceptionat wt.method.RemoteMethodServer.logQuestionableOrBadInvokeCall(RemoteMethodServer.java:1581)at wt.method.RemoteMethodServer.invoke(RemoteMethodServer.java:647)at at.techsoft.ifactory.worker.components.QueueRetryMechanism.doRetry(QueueRetryMechanism.java:51)at at.techsoft.ifactory.worker.components.QueueRetryMechanism.retryFailedEntries(QueueRetryMechanism.java:31)at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethod

There are multiple tables with LWC* in windchill db. Does any one has idea about those tables?  

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 12.0 and Datecode with CPS 12.0.2.14Import is not working as expected, getting unwanted errors.Here are the errors that I facedImport started...Started object creation process...com.ptc.windchill.option.model.Option:1445524|178845396-1568923833896-1164344728-23-128-64-10|ABB-IAEN-qa.ptcmscloud.com,"Design Option - 00082, Channels" is successfully imported.,com.ptc.windchill.option.model.Option:121158921,Design Option - xxxx, Chaxxxxcom.ptc.windchill.option.model.Option:1445617|178845396-xxxx-11643447xxxx28-23-128-64-10|xx-xx-qa.xx.com,"Design Option - 00083, Red.24V Supply" is successfully imported.,com.ptc.windchill.option.model.Option:121158922,Design Option - 00083, Red.24V Supplycom.ptc.windchill.option.model.Option:1679369|xxxx-xxx-1164344728-23-128-64-10|ABB-xx-xx.xxxx.com,"Design Option - xx, SKELETON" is successfully imported.,com.ptc.windchill.option.model.Option:121158923,Design Option - 00087, SKELETONcom.ptc.windchill.option.model.Option

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 12.1 and Datecode with CPS 12.1.2.1i need to run a report showing the list of windchill users and the Windchil DS Bind CN information for each account. I am preparing a list of users so that I can use the Disconnected Participant tool for my WindchillDS users prior to upgrade to HTTPS.Is this possible using the report builder function in Windchill PDM link and if so how?

Hi,I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 11.1 and Datecode with CPS M020-CPS27Is it possible to make a formula in Type and Attribute manager who listing all users in the system:My case is I need to create an attribute (on the product type) with the list of all people of the organisation.Thanks.

As per the original post.    Is there a way to exclude all wtdocuments from being published regardless of size?  We are dumping thousands of PDF files into the system, when we change state to released they all try to publish and fail... no reason to try and publish a pdf to a pdf.

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 12.1 and Datecode with CPS 12.1.0.4Is it possible to allow only the admin to revise files?Restrict users.

Looking for others with AWS private cloud implementations,   We are experiencing the following failure and error message in the BGMS logs when attempting to ZIP a large Package Delivery. We have a top priority case open with PTC, but have not made any headway in two weeks. Curious if anyone else has experienced this issue with Windchill hosted in AWS?   ERROR [WPSyncQueue.PollingThread] com.ptc.windchill.wp.action.DefaultActionDelegate Administrator - Delivery ZIP file could not be created. Contact your administrator if the problem persists. wt.util.WTException: com.amazonaws.SdkClientException: Unable to execute HTTP request: The target server failed to respon. Nested exception is: com.amazonaws.SdkClientException: Unable to execute HTTP request: The target server failed to respond   We have a similar issue but no error messages, preventing us from uploading a primary content file larger than 1GB for a Windchill Document. Never had problems when the servers were in the

We have gotten multiple occurrences of the error: operation failed, because there is a new part usage link to never checked in part(s): Part --Secured Information. This error as occurred when truing to build WTPart structure and at check in. Any ideas what is causing it? How to fix it?      

I need to import some code that I wrote in an IDE. How can I paste or import that into Modeler 10? How can I export textual notation?

I have been contemplating a way to provide 'local' autonumbering, but inside contexts- rather than using global database sequences to drive autonumbering, is there a way of having local iterative numbering without creating as many sequences as there are contexts?For example, you could achieve this based on whether a specific number is already in use?e.g. a specific context might start with an unique prefix, such as a product ID, and a subtype initial e.g.1111_DOC_*.The rest of the number could then be determined by whether the number is already is use e.g. if 1111_DOC_001 exists, try 1111_DOC_002, then *_003, until successful.I figured this could be possible, since when manually numbering objects, the 'number already in use' response is rather quick- though maybe not efficient enough to not overburden the system with requests when it needs to check if 900 numbers are valid to create before creating 1111_DOC_901.You could speed up execution by writing a custom java RuleAlgorithm class t

Hello, In an assembly of at least two-level child components, I can see that the Managed Variant Specification only manages the first level child components, is that the case or do we have way to edit second level child as well to create a variant ? Thanks.