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Hello All! I have an assembly (created in Creo 8 )what contains two sealings. It's the same O-ring, but once it appears in its normal state, in an other location it is compressed. Originally the assembly contains 2 parts for the 2 states of the O-ring. In Windchill, it's the same WTPart, with the 2 CAD documents attached (owner and image associations). The 3D model of the CAD document looks OK, but at the WTPart, it's not, the O-rings are not placed well. Is there a way to make the representation of the WTPart to look the same as the representation of the CAD document? TIA!  

Hi, I have seen lots of improvement on MBD to show dimensions in 3D model. Similarly BOM table can be able to show using .tbl file and take print for quotation purpose.  Looking to avoid 2D drawing just to create the BOM table.

When examining the PTC.CADDocumentMgmt API, I can use the endpoint http://serverName/Windchill/servlet/odata/CADDocumentMgmt/CADDocuments('OR:wt.epm.EPMDocument:24416953')/Attachments('OR:wt.content.ApplicationData:24416979') or simply http://serverName/Windchill/servlet/odata/CADDocumentMgmt/CADDocuments('OR:wt.epm.EPMDocument:24416953')/Attachments to view data within Attachments using the GET method. However, my objective is to add a PDF to Attachments, in other words, I want to use the POST method. I can see the GET Attachments, but I couldn't find a way to perform a POST on Attachments. How can I achieve this? There is a GET method for Attachments, but a corresponding POST method is not apparent.

Is there any method available to set the coloured text from Data Utility?

I am experiencing a problem with the following: https://<WINDCHILL_SERVER>/Windchill/servlet/odata/DocMgmt/Documents('OR:wt.doc.WTDocument:288032')/PTC.DocMgmt.UploadStage1Action. I executed this API in the document, and there is no issue related to DocMgmt. However, the actual thing I need to run is not DocMgmt, but CADDocumentMgmt. I access the data as follows: Windchill/servlet/odata/CADDocumentMgmt/CADDocuments('OR:wt.epm.EPMDocument:22567231'). But when I send a POST request to Windchill/servlet/odata/CADDocumentMgmt/CADDocuments('OR:wt.epm.EPMDocument:22567231')/PTC.CADDocumentMgmt.UploadStage1Action or UploadStage3Action, I don't get any response. What is the solution to this, and can you help me?

Hello, As I understand, Modules tab comes in Managed Variant Specification. Do we have any preference to enable Modules tab in stand-alone variant specification as well? Thanks.

HiWe have a requirement to stop traversing a structure in BOM report if the assembly has part type = inseparable or source=buy when generating a BOM report. The reason is that the buy or inseparable compoents does not have child components in ERP. Can this be done without major customizations?

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.