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Is it possible for me to simply exceed the 500 character limit of the string Length?  

I am using Windchill PDMLink Release 12.0 and Datecode with CPS 12.0.2.3How is idA2A2 generated in the object DB tables like WTDocMaster, WTDoc?Is the value generated in sequence regardless of the table/object type?I verified the DB sequence, ID_Sequence but this does not seem to be generating the number in sync with the object creation.Please advise.

Hi all, I am having an issue with exporting as .step file from Windchill. We commonly do this to liason with suppliers, of course. My workflow is something like this: I save a .prt as as .stp and have it attached to the original .prt content in Windchill. Then, when I want to export this, I go to the part in Windchill and press the download button (circled in orange in attached screenshot). However, it brings up the prompt that can be seen in the middle of the attached screenshot where it tries to import the step file that I would like to export. This feature works how I want it to when I login to Windchill in a browser like Chrome, but I want it to work the same way in the Creo browser.  Any idea why this is? How can I ensure the download button actually downloads the file, not imports it as a new part. I have no problem with this workflow when I do the same thing with .stl files. Thank you!Jeff Houston  

what are Worker Agent Administration, Queue Management and WVS Job Monitor . Is there any correlation between these utilities? can you please explain each in one liner.also, when user tries to upload any CAD file into Windchill, are these participate in that publishing process? if yes, how is the sequence between these 3.?

I created Windchill Calculated attributes, I want these attributes to be shown in the Primary Attributes section according to some conditions, using the new rule, and I want them not to appear in some conditions. How can I use the Calculated attributes I created as a new rule?

Hello!   Has anyone else built an extension or integration with Windchill or other PTC product? Specifically, I'm looking to build an API tool that helps extract and map certain data fields.    Have any developers had success getting a developer account to to build with before? For experimentation?   Thank you!

Need a method to link Change Notice and Change Request.Similar to "ChangeProcessLink.newChangeProcessLink" which allows CR to CR or CN to Cn linkage only.Any inputs?

I created parts and assemblies in creo, which is connected to windchill, so they were stored in the workspace of windchill. Then, I need to check them into the common space of windchill. But there are also files like "s2d0049.sec", "s2d0050.sec" and so on, which I did not create by myself, but they appeared in the workspace, after I had created the parts and assemblies. Does somebody maybe know what the ".sec"-files are, and whether they need to be checked into the commonspace? Because as far as I understand, you would also need to rename every ".sec"-file so that it is unique inside of windchill. Thanks a lot for any ideas and replies!

Working with 12.0.2 and shifting the location of my ldap from a temp WindchillDS server to an OpenDJ server with just has users in Administrative and Enterprise branches. I noticed in the site.xconf these values: If the configuration has been moved from the LDAP server to json files and this location is different from where my users are managed currently after the upgrade, what is this doing? It appears to be entries from initial base install before my upgrade rehearsal. The values are written to the ieStructureProperties.txt file in the WEB-INF folder.  In previous versions, this is where Windchill read its configuration from the LDAP. Is this just a hold over that PTC will eventually clean up? Or does it still have some function?    

Side effect of flipping who creates out Change Notice objects. We had previous automated creation so wcadmin was the creator. We finally flipped back to more OOTB where uses can create (I do not use Change Admin roles). When the ESI workflow kicked off, it failed since the creator of the CN whom it uses in ESI did not have rights to create an ESI Transaction. Simple to fix by granting rights at the Org level in Systems domain like it suggested but strange that I had to do this.   2022-12-21 11:38:33,399 ERROR [SessionThread-825] wt.access.evaluation.report - "XXXXXXX" does not have Create permission for "Enterprise Systems Transaction - " in Administrative Domain "Site, Organization - MYORG /System". 2022-12-21 11:38:33,404 ERROR [SessionThread-825] com.ptc.windchill.esi.txn.ESITransactionUtility - Error while creating ESITransaction object. (wt.access.accessResource/19) wt.access.NotAuthorizedException: ATTENTION: Secured Action. You do not have the necessary authorization for th

Hi, I want to migrate a repository from PTC windchill to Gitlab. How I can export or download a PTC repository with all history, checkpoint etc. Thanks

I have a Windchill system that has been around for 15 years, started at Windchill 8 with upgrades to 9, 9.1, 10 and 11. When I did my test run to upgrade the data to Windchill 12.0.2, I found a line in the log file saying I should enable Automatic Folder Rollover.  I have that enabled on my other Windchill system (Windchill 11.0 upgraded to 11.1) but that system also uses a single vault with folders under it. The older system was setup with 6 vaults each with folders under them. I would like to enable automatic rollover on the folders for this system. Does anyone have any ideas on what is needed? Do I need a single vault for this to work or can it work with multiple vaults?

Getting this error installing 12.1: CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access is denied.) while attempting to open or create the physical file 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\/windchill12_1.mdf'

I added a couple of settings to a new Windchill 12.0.2.8 system for wt.FV settings. When I use xconfmnager -d on the settings, 2 of them show as being in site.conf and wt,properties with the target being codebase\wt.properties. The other 2 only show as being in site.conf but they do have the target set to codebase\wt.properties. Yet when I open wt.properties, I can find all 4 settings and set to my values.  Anyone else seen this odd result?

Hello All, I was wondering if it is possible to attach a PDF document to a WTPart like how we have secondary attachments for WTDocuments. Can you let me know feasibility of the same? Thanks,Hari

Alas, in a flood of "CAD worker isn't working" posts I do think I have a new one...  Running on one VM are 2 instances of Creo and 1 instance of NX. The two Creo instances are identical (copy/paste) with edit to names (i.e. "instance 1" folder and "instance 2" folder).WorkerDaemon is set up as a service and runs automatic with a local system account. After a restart, when I check the the worker agent, the 3 instances on this machine (and only this machine. The other 2 work fine and are setup the same) shows the workers as not started and the worker monitor is off. If I toggle the workerdaemon to try to get some action, nothing happens. I can start the worker monitor manually and then only 1 of the 2 Creo instances starts. The only way I can get the other Creo and the remaining NX workers to start is to manually launch their respective worker.bat files.  Not sure what else to look at.Ports that are used for the workers?  

Need to add dropdown in tha task page along with comment and make it required when user select rework or reject option.Any inputs to achieve this?

Hey guys,   Is there any OTB service available to get all the part structure (till nth child) by providing oid/number?   

I want to fecth the tasks available in "Tasks for Change Process" of Change Request and link to another object available in asssociated process object of the same CR through java code.Any help on this?

Hi,If a CR is having some objects like problem report, Plan Activity, linked in associated process objects then the affected objects present in those linked objects in associated process objects are not propogating to CR.Any help on this?

Hello guys,Could you please share an example of using Windchill Java api with function INSTR . SQL e.g.SELECT count(*)FROM LCSPalette, LCSProductWHERE INSTR(LCSPalette.PTC_STR_12TYPEINFOLCSPALETTE, LCSProduct.PTC_STR_21TYPEINFOLCSPRODUCT) > 1

Hello to everyone, My problem depends on windchill 12.1.0.0After I changed the versioning of the object by object initialization rules, I get this when I try to build an object:ATTENTION:For input string: "A"I changed from milspec to IntegerSeries in level.1 and level.2There are no objects I created before with milspec So I guess, it's not about previous objects, created by different version schema.Did anybody had the same problem and solved that? Thank you  

Error "Browser service is unavailable. Verify the integrity of your installation and try again" when trying to register Windchill server in WWGM

Hi Friends, Need to understand how value is generated fir Ida2a2 column in EPMDocumentMaster.  Observed that it is not an identity column.  Is it normal max+1 serial number filling or any other logic exists? Windchill database is hosted on SQL Server. We are trying to repair windchill database which got corrupted due to disk failure. Please share info if anyone is aware of the logic. Regards,Hema

I am a System admin and would like to understand how a CAD document goes through the various parts of windchill, right from its creation and checking it in to windchill until it gets accessed by other users.what are the Agents involved in making this CAD doc life cycle. I just need a simple crisp steps that it crosses inlcuding Q mngmnt,WVS, CAD workers and other. if any.