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For many years, I have had a few listeners employed to keep the system in check and save some time for my users. Its always been a battle between these customizations and breaking OOTB functionality. One that has been my mainstay has been a Rename Listener which propagates name changes from Parts to CAD docs and drawings.  First it was the introduction of multi-object rename. Great improvement but broke the listener. I learned to decouple by pushing the act or propagation to a queue task. This allowed the rename action to complete and the queue triggered the associated object syncs.  Now, looks like I hit a wall with that fix and Import from Spreadsheet jobs with Parts. These can be used to mass rename things if the name does not match the existing Part in the system. I can work around this but its problematic. Looks like something is modifying an queue task object which causes the dreaded stale object error.   I am looking for a new way other than listeners to perf

Let me preface this by saying that we are beginning our digital journey, so we appreciate any help and patience you can offer.   Currently, out cadworker is setup to generate visualizations "As Stored", so that it captures the snapshot in time when the data was generated. However, we are seeing some issues: Engineers are making some small changes to the geometry. They are promoting just the part, and no higher level assemblies; since the assy BOM are not being affected. Does your company enforce the user to revise ALL higher level assemblies so that the step file gets updated? How does that impact downstream teams when the top-level  assemblies could be getting revised multiple times a day without any 'real' change. That could end up having a lot of wasted work where most items on an ECN are 'no changes'. In addition, we used to tell our team to check-in their work every day. Now we need to have them change this to check-in all of their work at once so that it updates p

Hello,   I want to write a query spec in such a way that it should give only the later revisions of a part from a specific version and not the old versions. If any of you got such functionality already, please comment the same.   Thanks, Sha

This is a weird one and I do have an open case with PTC but they want to close it. I had IT clone the virtual servers for Windchill and Oracle and then ran the Rehost utility with the Rename option on the new machines. Everything looks good and runs as expected.  Until.... I went to do an Oracle expdp backup of the new VM Oracle database. I entered the commands in SQLPlus to create the directory and point it to a folder on the machine. However, when I run the expdp command, Oracle is writing the files to the source machine disk and not the target machine. This is on WIndchill 11.0 M030 CPS16 with Oracle 12cR1. Anyone seen this or know how to tell Oracle to use the cur rent  host machine for the expdp files?

Hello,   Whenever I initiate an ESI transaction in Windchill, the status is immediately getting updated as "Succeeded" instead of going to "Pending". If anyone can shed some light on this, it would be very helpful.   Thanks, Sha

Hello,   we have an issue with the numbering of EPM documents and WTparts. The counters for WTParts and EPM Documents are not working in sync. The EPM documents get different numbers from the workgroupmanager, from PDMlink and the WTPart get another number. I even had to add a prefix to the WTPart number to avoid numbering conflicts.   This is very confusing for the users. See the screenshot below. Especially when searching for a number in the quick search, the users get several results.   Is there a way to keep document numbers in the workgroupmanager, the EPM document and WTpart numbering in Windchill synchronized?   The goal is, that the numbers in filename, name and number are identical for the document and the related WTpart.   Thanks a lot in advance for your answers.   Best Chris

This applies to Windchill 11.1  I have tried the following code which seems to to work for Creo family table instances, at least for some demo objects provided in the Windchill OOTB, but not for CATIA design table instances. For Creo this code works just fine for getting the family table object:   EPMSepFamilyTable familyTbl=null;try {  QueryResult results = EPMStructureHelper.service.navigateContainedIn(epmDocument, null, true);  while(results.hasMoreElements()) {    Object obj = results.nextElement();    if (obj instanceof EPMSepFamilyTable) {       familyTbl = (EPMSepFamilyTable)obj;       log.error("Found family table object " + familyTbl);   }   else      continue; } } catch (WTException e) {   log.error(e);   throw e;} Is this the correct way to get family table object for CATIA Design table instance too ?   Also, when I do get a f

Hi All Does some one know about the  Oracle parameter OOTB로 _OPTIM_PEEK_USER_BINDS ?   The oracle default values is OOTB로 _OPTIM_PEEK_USER_BINDS=true   Customer site ,set  it OOTB로 _OPTIM_PEEK_USER_BINDS=false,  and  found that delete part is two slowly .(200seconds )   is the parameter impact on delete part ?   hope receive your any input.   thanks Akim

I was working in a project where I should only show a particular subtype of Document in a table. I was putting my code for that and finally I got the table but the contents inside the table ie Name of the document or Number of the Document are not visible. Here I am attaching my code and I am sending the pic of that can anyone say what is the alteration I should do in this code to make my contents in the table.   My Code: /* bcwti** Copyright (c) 2010 Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC). All Rights Reserved.** This software is the confidential and proprietary information of PTC* and is subject to the terms of a software license agreement. You shall* not disclose such confidential information and shall use it only in accordance* with the terms of the license agreement.** ecwti*/package com.ptc.training.mvc; import static com.ptc.core.components.descriptor.DescriptorConstants.ColumnIdentifiers.CHANGE_STATUS_FAMILY;import static com.ptc.core.components.descriptor.DescriptorConsta

Is there a compatibility chart for Schematics, Windows version, Work Group Manager version, and Windchill version for Windchill 12.0.xxx and Windchill 12.1.xxx

I have created a windchill service which will capture some actions.And I have done with capturing the delete,checkin and state change events.I don't have an Idea about how to capture the revision event of on object.Can someone help me out of it.Some example code snippets would be more helpful for me.Thank you

I am trying to see what is available to perform a WTPart to MPMlink Operation where used.   can't seem to find anything useful.    Thanks in advance! 

Hi,   What is the best practice in associating drawings and STEP-files to WTParts?   At the moment we have Solidworks parts and assemblys which are associated to WTParts but we would also like to associate corresponding drawings (.slddrw and .pdf) and STEP-files to the WTParts.   I studied Windchill Help and I believe I should associate both kinds of drawings and STEPs with "Content" -type association. Is this correct?   Also, Windchill automatically associated SLDPRT with WTPart with "Contributing Image" -association. In my understanding, it should be "Owner" -type, but that type is not even available in the drop down menu. Is "Contributing Image" OK in this case?  

Hello,   Is there an API to make a copy of an MPMOperation ?   Thanks,

Has anyone run into the issue of not being able to open or see Creo files using Solidworks Windchill Workgroup Manager Workspace or is this functionality not available with Windchill managing Solidworks files? I'm currently not able to see the Creo files that are in a workspace by browsing to the workspace or if I open them within the Windchill Workgroup Manager for Solidworks.Just want to be able to open the files de-feature them and generate a step file with out saving the original Creo file.Any ideas how to configure Windchill/Workgroup manager to do this?   Note: There are currently Creo files in the workspace and the image shows that only the Solidworks files are accessible.  I have changed the filter setting to show all files in the workspace in the dialog box below.    

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

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