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Rachel Mclean, Product Management Specialist, is our #3 interview this month for the March ThingWorx Navigate Women Spotlight Series.  Rachel is not a new face to the PTC Community! Rachel has contributed ThingWorx Developer community content in our IoT Tech Tips board.   Let's learn more about Rachel!       Jaime Lee:  I am excited to learn more about Rachel!  What can you tell me about your role at PTC that myself or the PTC Community might not already know?   Rachel:  I have been at PTC for about 2.5 years, but joined the ThingWorx Navigate team in September 2022 as a Product Manager focusing on Connected PLM, Telemetry, Navigate Components, and liaising with customers via the Community and our Customer Success partners. I’ve held a few different roles at PTC. Right before this, I was a ThingWorx Product Manager, joining the Navigate team has been a natural transition, especially focusing on Connected PLM.   I’m also invol

We use Windchill and Creo 7. When I opened a Creo drawing for an assembly, the 3d model shown is of old iteration. Tried to update the workspace but still the problem persists.

In my organization user revise CAD file but they forget to use collector option to revise WTPart file also. So all the time revision value of CAD file is ahead of WTPart file. So is there a way in preference that automatically WTPart file also get revised while revising CAD file without the use of collector.   

Is there a way to detect that a CR was edited or that a CN has been attached to the CR within a workflow?  Is there a specific event for this that can be used in the Synchronize Robot?  I already use the robot for detecting state changes in this and child/parent objects.  Side note:  is there a definitive list of OOTB object events and their descriptions?  Tired of trying to guess the correct search words... 

If anybody can help sharing download link of Creo View Adapter 5.1. PTC have discontinued the version and is not available to download. If any one here can help me and share the downloadable link, the it will be great help. Thanks in Advance.Jignesh.

Hello In the assembly info >> Structure tab it is possible to show the quantity.When using SW it is possible to exclude from BOM. And here is something weird.The Structure Tab shows the amount of each part available in the Model.The Uses mentioned for each instance. if instance is excluded than it shows an additional note. This give (at least some users )confusion.So here my questions Is there a reason that both names are the same but the behavior differ? What can i do to set the quantitiy so that it shows the amount of that is also on the BOM(and ignore the excluded)? Thanks

 Running the WRS '/Windchill/servlet/odata/v5/ProdMgmt/CreateAssociations' command returns this error message:  { "error": { "code": "Error", "message": "Cannot process objects checked out to another Workspace" } } The part is checked out by the same user who is trying to run the API call.Any suggestions? The full command is:curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' --header 'CSRF_NONCE: #########' -d '{"PartDocAssociations":[{"AssociationType":{"Value":"OWNER"},"RelatedPart@odata.bind":"Parts('OR:wt.part.WTPart:######')","RelatedCADDoc@odata.bind":"CADDocuments('OR:wt.epm.EPMDocument:######')"}]}' 'http://##.###.#.##/Windchill/servlet/odata/v5/ProdMgmt/CreateAssociations?$count=false' 

I'm working on a document management type. Users need to fill in attributes when creating this type, but I don't want them to see some attributes when editing. When I make a restriction from the profile, it also goes from the create attributes section.Can I restrict it as a layout base? 

Hi folks, Having Windchill "X" instaled on Windows "Y" - is it ok to update Windows up to Windows "Z" on this same machine??. Both of Windows are supported. In the past, when I wanted to change OS - I created new machine with new Windows, new Windchill installation, and as the last step I moved Windchill. Now I wandering if new machine is neccessary.   

Hello everyone, please advise on how to get the format of a drawing and the number of pages in the Query builder in Windchill? In the Reat API endpoint "PTC.CADDocumentMgmt/CADDocuments('{CADDocumentId}')", you are getting information about the format of the drawing and the number of pages.   However, I am unable to find these parameters in the Query Builder. Here are the relationships that I am using in the Query Builder.      

Hi to all!How can I set the text color inside the dataUtility?localDispText = new TextDisplayComponent((String)localName); ((TextDisplayComponent)localDispText).setValue((String)localName);Thanks a lot!

Is there a way to use the rest api to get a list of all wtparts and their attributes?

I am still investigating but twice this week we've had issues where our DB (Oracle 21C Standard) would freeze up. All Windchill threads would pause and stack up. After 10-20 mins, the system would come alive but freeze again shortly large. We saw this Monday and this lasted for a few hours. Things were fine until this afternoon when issue returned. We were not able to determine the root issue but we know its database related. We capture ORA-00742 error in alert.log (log read detects lost write in thread string sequence string block).  My DBA is chasing down any Oracle related bug or setting issue. I started looking into what was going on at that time. Very close to that time, a user checked in a massive 1200 component assembly new. It looks like it succeeded since I can see the jobs filled up the publishing queue. I can also see that they were working in a massive workspace on Monday as well, 2400+ objects, basically some garbage, crappy STEP import.  My questions is these: i

We are in week 2 of our Women's History Month celebration here on the PTC Community!  We are still pursuing the acknowledgement and recognition of some women on our ThingWorx Navigate Product Team. Today's spotlight is Priyanka Bansal of ThingWorx Navigate Technical Product Management..       Jaime Lee:  Hello, nice to meet you, Priyanka!  I don't often have the opportunity to connect with the technical product team.  What can you tell the community about yourself and the role of Technical Product Management?   Priyanka:  I joined PTC 8 years ago as a Quality Assurance engineer for Windchill Project Management.  In 2017, I moved to the ThingWorx Navigate product team.  My role as a Technical Product Manager is to handle new product development and ensure the product meets customer needs and drives business growth.   Jaime Lee:  Eight years at PTC!  That's great! Since we are celebrating Women's History month, I have

Hi team The Change Request Summary Report (This report provides a summary of all the Affected Objects of a Change Request.) fails. The report window has a spinner which never ends.  In the Persisted Log Events window I click through to an error page. there is: Message: getJasperPrint(): Error While executing Jasper report The stack trace is below. The problem started after the upgrade to WC 12.0.2, which introduced JasperReports. Go into the 'Report Management' window and click on 'edit this report':  Input Page:  netmarkets/jsp/changeReports/ChangeRequestSummaryReport.jsp Resource Bundle: com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.change2.reports.change2ReportsResource   What are my options to debug this? thanks -- Rick     Throwable:  net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRExpressionEvalException: Error evaluating expression for source text: new net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRXmlDataSource($P{WINDCHILL_URL}+"?proc=com_ptc_windchill_en

We are using Eclipse to develop Windchill customizations, but we're having some issues displaying the javadoc popup for Windchill's API. For classes the popup gives me the javadoc information as expected, e.g. SearchCondition:  But when I try to get information about the constructor for SearchCondition the javadoc popup throws an error message: "Note: This element has no attached source and the Javadoc could not be found in the attached Javadoc." Here you can see that the javadoc location is specified for the codebase: As a workaround I can open the javadoc in the browser, but it would be great to access the javadoc directly in Eclipse. Is there a way to achieve this?     

Hello, I encountered LDAP Import error during rehosting on OpenDJ 4.4.11 where the import ldif action skips all the entires but shows the task as successfully completed.I am getting following in the logs.  [14/Mar/2023:18:42:41 +0530] severity="NOTICE" msgCount=14 msgID=org.opends.messages.backend-519 message="Processed 21 entries, imported 0, skipped 21, rejected 0 and migrated 0 in 0 seconds (average rate 35.9/sec)" [14/Mar/2023:18:42:41 +0530] severity="NOTICE" msgCount=15 msgID=org.opends.messages.backend-526 message="Import LDIF environment close took 0 seconds" [14/Mar/2023:18:42:41 +0530] severity="NOTICE" msgCount=16 msgID=org.opends.messages.backend-518 message="Flushing data to disk"  Would appreciate if anyone has a resolution to this issue. Thank You!  

If any of you have running systems with NX (we're on 2007) in Windchill (WC12.0.2.8 and WGM 12.1.1.0), have you run into this error on the CAD worker? What it seems to result in is disconnecting NX from the WGM and then subsequent jobs fail with the same signature when in fact there is no error. The first failure that occurs is genuine (something off with the drawing). Right after that, there's an entry in the NX .syslog file saying something like "unloading .ugadaptor dll for WGM". And then the worker for NX is down until the application if removed from Application Management and re-added.  Are there some wgmclient.ini options for ignoring regen or attribute errors like there are for Creo? Is there a graceful exist to this error that doesn't take the whole worker instance down for all the subsequent jobs? 

Hey everyone,  We are in the final stages of our SSO configuration for Windchill. We get prompted with the Microsoft sign-in, but it ends up searching for the user's email attribute in Windchill rather than their first.last (our current setup for user accounts in Windchill).We have tried mapping the attributes to no avail. We are also required to delete everything in the address bar after */Windchill in order to get it to load. I end up with a "URL not found" error. 

I need to restrict the attributes on my edit page to different users. For example, while I cannot see some attributes for user X, I want user Y to see all of them. How can I make this distinction?

I converted my users from WindchillDS to MS AD over the weekend.  There were three users that seem to have issues reported in Windu.  Their current domain does not match their Default domain.  When I try to do the fix per the instuctions, it does not keep.  There are no log errors.  I am on Windchill 11.1 m020 cps 28.   User <username> is not in default domain Current domain: [/]/User/Unaffiliated Default domain: [/wt.inf.container.OrgContainer=<org>]/<org>Because user belongs to organization: <org>   ************** FIX INSTRUCTIONS ****************************************************************************************First check if all the Organizations are in the correct domain. If not, update them and re-run the WinDUGo to Site -> Utilities -> Participant Administration Search and add the User listed with incorrect domain using the Participant Picker (Add Participant)Edit the User and update the domain of the User to

Hello, As Administrator, i was asked some KPI about the usage of Windchill Licenses and there are two of them i have difficulties to get for each type of license and during the 3 or 6 past months: 1) The percentage of licenses which are entitled but not used at all.2) The percentage of licenses which are entitled but not used a lot. I miss the entitlement date in order to have a reliable percentage. The different License reports, even the Windchill Performance Advisor don't provide this date. The objective is to optimize the licenses we allocate What do you think about ? Best regards,Pascal 

While upgrading to Windchill 12.1 today, we required a reboot of the server. Windchill was running fine prior to the upgrade, but we could not access Windchill after. Windchill returned the following error "HTTP STATUS 404 Not Found": The requested URL was not found on this server. A search revealed PTC article  CS374085 which stated the cause of the error to be missing files 30-app-Windchill.conf and 20-mod_jk.conf in <HTTP_Server>/conf/conf.d Restoring those two files fixed the issue; I am just wondering what caused the files to go missing in the first place. Anyone have any experiance with this? 

We are currently on Windchill PDMLInk Release: 11.2.1.17.  We were supposed to upgrade first quarter 2023 but it was moved to 2024 by management.  In earlier versions of Windchill a user could do a search for a objectname* & get all revisions, prt/asm/drw.  From there it was a clunky but doable process to restore a previous revision when needed (a extremely rare situation).  However, today I attempted to show it was done & as a user my search only showed the current revision(s).   Logging in as organization admin (in a seperate browser) I was able to successfully see ALL of the revisions of that same object name.    It's been a long time since I attempted this, certainly a few versions ago.   Is there a permission lever that our users would need to be able to search for & access previous revisions? Thanks,Joe S.     

When converting Excel file into XML file, Instead of constraints related information there is some 14 digit number in constraints value  for example - CONSTRAINT= 93716108618800 is in XML file. What is this value refers to?