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Hi everyone.   We are on a multi-year journey to update our business.  We use Creo and Windchill PDMLink for basic uses.  Modeling, drawings, document storage and change management.  However, we have started a project to automate some of our process for our website by using Classification.  We have a PTC authorized vendor helping us.  They want to get us starting to using eBOM/mBOM/WTParts.   However, I want to ask if there is anyone out there reading this or that knows someone that has gone through this digital journey and if your or they are willing to talk to us.  We want to get your point of view of any thing we should know, anything you found out you should not have done or glad you did do.  Were there any lessons learned?   We can ask our partner company for references to talk to but we also want to get a point of view when not having our vendor on the call so we can be more open.   Any help would be appreciated.

Earlier the Owning Organization of a part subtype back was SITE   We did make some changes in the configuration and that has led to the change in the owning organization to Org (SA_LR_WB) from Site. As the updates were made by opening the Type and Attribute Management from ORG level instead of Site.   Is there any way to change the Owning Organization of a part subtype back to SITE? Windchill version is WC11.0 M010 CPS02

Hello experts,   I am new to Windchill and i am currently exploring the data model, it seems i cannot see all the relations(inherited and on class) on a Part or Document from the "Types and Attributes" page. I can see the properties but not relations, is there a different page or API which will get me that info?     Thanks in advance.  

Hi all, I want to fetch list of all checked out object by specific user through windchill API, can some one help me out? Input : UserName Output : Checked-out objects list   Thanks.

can you someone help me to find a way to load the wtdocument using loadfiles along with wtdocument.    I am able to load wtdocument but do not know how to use the tag for securtiy label. example : my security label is "X". 

We will host a live Expert Session: "Building Custom ThingWorx Navigate Applications using WRS and Navigate Components" on August 19th, 2021 11 AM EST   Please find below the description of the expert session and the registration link.   Expert Session: Building Custom ThingWorx Navigate Applications using WRS and Navigate Components Date and Time: Thursday, August 19th, 2021 11 AM EST Duration: 1 hour Host: Emily Larkin, PTC Product Manager Registration link: Register now   As a follow on to the recent expert session Tailoring Windchill Rest Services to Build ThingWorx Navigate Applications, this expert session will focus on the ThingWorx Navigate customization architecture and how Windchill Rest Services can be combined with Navigate components to build custom ThingWorx Navigate Applications that meet exactly the needs of your enterprise.   You're looking for  ThingWorx Navigate Custom Application but unclear

Check out this video on Using Search in Windchill from PTC Application EngineersPresenters: Donna Fedeli (Technical Specialist, Principal) and Ryan Butcher (Technical Specialist, Fellow)Original Date Presented: August 10, 2021To dive deeper into the subject, check out Windchill PLM Search - PTC University.  

With the release of Windchill 12.0.2.0, PTC has made some important changes regarding Automatic license data collection. These changes are described in TS articles here. Please review and send us your comments or questions.PTC customers can analyze license usage data on Windchill Performance Advisor. Performance Advisor provides customer with license consumption insights and trends to enable them to best manage customer license entitlements.  

Hello, I am a blind student at the LMU in Munich and in the upcoming semester we will have a project together with a big international acting german industrial company that uses Windchill. The company uses the front ends or clients that use embedded browsers (CEF or internet explorer). From a short test I was not able to use the accessibility functions so my screen readers where not able to connect and read out the content of the application like buttons, labels and so on.   How does other people with disabilities use Windchill? Is there a way turn accessibility in this front ends on?    Kind regards, Hans 

Curious if a workflow robot (or transition) could use some custom code to automatically assign a participant to a particular task.  I'd like to decide who to assign a task to (based on some other criteria generated during workflow execution) without anyone having to select this user in advance.  Is this possible?  If so, are there any code snippets out there that might help show how to do this?  Thanks.

Hi all, I know of the Swagger service at <server>/Windchill/netmarkets/jsp/restapi/ , and it works well to experiment with the REST API at <server>/Windchill/servlet/rest/structure/objects   Is there also an equivalent Swagger service for the Odata API at <server>/Windchill/servlet/odata/ ? thanks Rick

Hello all,   I'm new to Windchill. I'm exploring about windchill REST api service. Can any one tell me about RepresentationID and how to find RepresentationID for 3D model in Windchill.   Thanks in advance.   /VR

LIVE WEBINAR From Author to IADS - How PTC Windchill can optimize your MIL-STD 40051 data creation, management, and delivery.   If you have a contract deliverable for MIL-STD 40051, GPSL's new Windchill add-on module can optimize your 40051 data creation, management, and delivery.   During this 30 minute webinar Christina Bergling and Ryan Lubben will demonstrate how 40051 for PTC Windchill will enable you to: Author and save your 40051 data directly into PTC Windchill, utilize preconfigured work packages for 40051, and set up automated workflow for trackable file sharing, review, and validation. Generate Repair Parts and Special Tools Lists (RPSTL) from LSA036 data saving weeks of effort and ensures data integrity between the RPSTL and your LSA solution. Create a Digital Thread to connect your engineering data directly to your parts information.  Deliver your source content to your customer for PDF or IADS enabling you to meet your contractual requirements. Click here

I need to do the upgrade from Oracle 12cR1 on a Windows Server 2012 to Oracle 1cR2. This is in preparation for doing a Windchill upgrade from 11.0 M030 to  11.1 M020. After I have Windchill 11.2 running on Windows Server 2012, I will rehost it to WIndows 2016.   My first step is to do the Oracle upgrade. I plan on doing am export data pump of the Oracle data, remove 12cR1 install 12cR2 and then import the data files back into Oracle. Since it is all running on the same machine, I figure this is the cleanest method.    Is there anything else I need to do with the data once it is in Oracle 12cR2? Does Oracle have an upgrade utility that would allow me to upgrade my existing 12cR1 install to 12cR2 without dumping/removing/importing the data?  

CSP security should be considered an additional step to apply a defense-in-depth approach to address XSS and data injection in Windchill. This will ensure Windchill PLM adhere to CSP directives.

I want to create a workspace in Windchill calling Rest API from our web application. But no where to find such API end point in any of the Windchill Rest API documentation. Is it possible to create workspace using rest API, if not what are the alternative for it. The goal is to create a workspace and then copy cad documents to that workspace from a web application.    

Has anyone created a folder subtype so that it can have different attributes in a specific context (presumably also it's own OIRs?)? There's plenty of discussion on CAD Document subtypes and WTDocument subtypes... I don't see anything on Folders in any documentation.    For context: A particular product context has some custom type attributes that we agreed would be best served at the Folder level. I can add the appropriate attributes and make them searchable but that impacts ALL of the folders. So at creation of a new folder all of the users would then see the custom type attributes that are intended just for one product.  So my thought was that I'll just make a folder subtype and have that be the default for the particular context. But, alas, there aren't OIRs for a folder so... how do I make it default for one context and not for the whole site? 

There seems to be some functionality lacking from the advanced search tool. If you can offer any suggestions on how to set up the search tool for any of the following searches, please let me know. This is 10.2 M020. Thanks!All objects checked out by anyone in a particular context.Currenly I can search by a single user but I don't see anyway to wildcard the name.Objects based on status (new, checked in, checked out)The results can currenly be sorted by this status, but I'd like to search directly with it instead.The latest iteration of each revision, except the latest.Should be something like this:Or maybe like this:But these both only return the latest revision.

Hello, do you know : How to make parts only showing in 3D assmebly model but now show in BOM. When I make assembly drawings, is very often need  to add some parts in my assmbly model to show the assembly relations,  But my assembly BOm doesnt need these parts,  Do you any sugestions? Thank you! Add information, in PLM BOM(BOM in windchill)

Hi All, We would love to be able to have a visual on the status and qty of jobs in the WVS queue, and wondering if anyone has ideas on how we could solve our requirement. Can the queue/job monitor information be queried or output in anyway?   Is it possible to push this to thingworx dashboard or mashup somehow?  any 3rd party tools out there that does this?   Any ideas that can give us some leads to pursue would be appreciated.

Hi, is it possible to retrieve the subtypes of wtPart from database? I was thinking the attribute partTypeName, but in which table is it? Or is it...

Was curious if anyone is using Tetra4D automate + Enrich for creating PDF based TDP's / documentation.   If so, issues? benefits? If not, do you use something else?

Hello All,I trying to write a Query report to list all the values of Classification Attributes for all the WTParts. I followed PTC solution CS220979, I'm only getting the Attribute Names of all the WTParts. The values of the Attributes are not generated. Is there something I'm missing to add in the query?Any suggestions would be helpful.Thanks,Kiran

Starting in Windchill 12.0.2 we need allow PTC to connect with our Windchill servers or request an exemption. I'm sure we've all got intellectual property and commercial or security sensitive data stored in our systems. What are the risks and mitigations of opening up the connection so PTC can collect the licence data?

I am reaching out to the community here for help if anyone has seen this issue. We recently upgraded to CPS16 Windchill 11.1 M020 and our Windchill Rest Services are throwing intermittent issues where the the user can not retrieve any data. Invoking restendpoint directly from the browser is throwing errors intermittently. These are out of the box rest endpoints. After multiple refreshes, the endpoint starts working.    {"error":{"code":"GENERAL_CONFIGURATION_ERROR_WITH_PARAM","message":"Configuration Error. See logs for details: org.json.JSONException: JSONArray[366] not found."}}  Thanks, Preeti