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anyone have suggestions on how to manage a single vault share for multiple Windchill systems on Windows?    we have PRODUCTION and two TEST systems in place. as more testing demands came up, we copied the vaults to the TEST systems, doubling and then tripling the disk space required for the vaults. ultimately we'd like to have a singe vault share for all three systems giving PRODUCTION read/write access and the TEST systems read along with their own unique "active" vault on a different share for testing purposes. these unique shares would get wiped and re-attached for a refresh.    i've looked at some older posts here, but didn't find anything conclusive. 

I am picking up an in-process project of configuring SSO with the software mentioned in the question, and as I dive in I wanted to put out a question to the user community here to see if anyone has implemented this within their environment, and if so, could provide any helpful details/information as I go forward.  Even if not the exact same software environment, but configuring SSO in general, that would be a significant help.Thanks in advance!

We have a System file that closes WQS [crashes] with the following error - "The Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object 'Databases'.  Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name and path name correctly."  Recovery was to revert to an earlier backup, but lost a lot of edit time and user is not concerned the problem could repeat. At the time they were adding reference designator information - which would be mostly text field updates.  Has anyone experienced this issue and determined a cause or fix?

Hello all. I hope all of you are great    Anyone of you know how to select the workflow for the Change Notice depending on the file type. For example I want to use a custom Change notice workflow for the CAD files and also that the change notice workflow for a document file (like a MS Word) use another workflow when the user hit the Create new Change notice option.” In summary: Different workflows for different files types when a Change Notice is created.   Thanks in advance.

I am trying to write an http POST request to create a Windchill Nonconformance (which is an object that is part of an add-on Windchill Module for Windchill Quality Management).  I am using the OData servlet.  In response to my post, Windchill rest services send back this response:   {"error": {"code": null,"message": "Changing the subject for an Affected Product is not allowed."}}   Does anyone know that this message means?   My html body is this: {"Name": "NC1701B","Description" : "upright","Context@odata.bind" : "Containers('OR:wt.inf.library.WTLibrary:4148327')","AffectedObjects": [{"ID": "OR:wt.part.WTPart:152929","Quantity": 25,"UnitType": {"Value": "EACH","Display": "Each"}}]}

Hello All,   My requirement is to add few custom attributes on workflow task page, so user will fill the values while completing the task.    ex. Attributes to add on task page  Attribute Country - Drop down list of country's Boolean Attribute - Radio options (YES/NO)   How i can achieve this requirement.   Thanks, Vivek

I have created a file /opt/ptc/Windchill_11.0/Windchill/tasks/ext/re/report/SB_Report/SB_SubjectReport.xml then, created Delegate,   Name : SB_SBNumber Repository Type :com.ptc.windchill Type Identifier : com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.report.ReportTask Source URL :/ext/re/report/SB_Report/SB_SubjectReport.xml Description :Report Task Example to show number of document.   executed commands from windchill shell, java com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.report.ReportHelper updatemodel              and windchill com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.report.ReportHelper modelupdate   Restarted Cognos. Still can't find Data Source in cognos  under "com.ptc.windchill.enterprise.report.ReportTask"   What is missing ? Also I can get output seen if I executed  file from browser using url  http://devapp2.organization.com/Windchill/servlet/IE/tasks/ext/re/report/SB_Report/SB_SubjectReport.xml Output:-  <wc:COLLECTION xmlns

Continuing to have issues with a Process Assembly. The model tree is straight forward, the Process Assy has a single object in the model tree (another assembly). That child assembly can publish with zero problems, however the Process assembly fails every time. Has anyone experienced the issue displayed by the log below: 2017-12-15 10:51:45 Successfully copied all files 2017-12-15 10:51:45 Sending $JOB$ D:\cadworker\cadworker1\w2i1j1520\_wvsjob.paj 2017-12-15 10:51:45 Time out disabled 2017-12-15 10:52:19 Reply from worker $ERROR$ Helper: Connection to worker has been closed. Shutting down... 2017-12-15 10:52:19 Worker being stopped due to error return from conversion 2017-12-15 10:52:19 Sending reply by socket $ERROR$ Helper: Connection to worker has been closed. Shutting down...

Hi Everyone,I want to use existing Windchill objects for my workflow tasks. For example, please see below image..Here you can observe highlighted area Enter Review Details which navigates to respective object's page where default attributes are defined.Same way, I want to use them in my flow .Please guide me for this as I'm new to Customization. Also tell me how to create new objects like below through API.Thanks In Advance,Krishna Chaitanya

Hi,   I am practicing a basic custom at the Windchill help center.   It fails at the stage of verification using Jython.   Please let me know for some reason.   Thanks, Warm Regards, SeonHo Cha.

For particular workflow processes, it is hanging at the Set State Robot, and throwing the following error. I could not find any root cause for this issue. A nested transaction cannot be started when a rollback is in progress. The following is the rollback stacktrace. ROLLBACK: java.lang.Thread.getStackTraceImpl(Native Method) ROLLBACK: java.lang.Thread.getStackTrace(Thread.java:1042) ROLLBACK: wt.pom.TransactionManager.rollbackTransaction(TransactionManager.java:624) ROLLBACK: wt.pom.BasicTransactionMonitor.rollbackTransaction(BasicTransactionMonitor.java:77) ROLLBACK: wt.pom.PersistentObjectManager.rollbackTransaction(PersistentObjectManager.java:447) ROLLBACK: wt.pom.Transaction.rollback(Transaction.java:566) ROLLBACK: wt.workflow.engine.StandardWfEngineService.synchRobotToEvent(StandardWfEngineService.java:8959) ROLLBACK: wt.workflow.engine.StandardWfEngineService$SynchEventListener.notifyVetoableEvent(StandardWfEngineService.java:429) ROLLBACK: wt.events.StandardKeyedEventBranch.in

Under "Legacy" change there was a built in rule that prevented a revision from being the result of more than one Change Notice.  As soon as someone tried to add the revision to the results table of a second task, Windchill stopped them and threw up an alert telling them they could not do that.   That rule does not seem to be enforced under "Flexible" change.  I can have Rev A of the same Document be the result of any number of Change Notices.  That doesn't make sense in our company.   Does anyone know if there is a way to configure that rule in Flexible change?  

Hello,   I want to know the feasibility of doing export/import classification through code.   Please let me know if it is possible to do the same, if so please direct me to a related article.   Thanks in advance.   Regards, Hari R

Hi All,   Wanted to see which ways there would be to attack this... I have users that will get promotion requests with say 10 or more drawings... once the promotion request inevitably goes thru the rework process, my users cannot tell which drawings have been iterated, and need rechecking at a glance.  I was thinking perhaps there is a way to display this in a notification email?  Or a new tab on the promotion request page which says whether a drawing has a new iteration (True/false) since the last submission?   Thanks in advance for weighing in!

Working in a part structure which is not CAD-driven I'm able to edit the positions of parts in Creo View and commit to Windchill using the command "Save Part Location". A very handy command in many situations, how ever this commit will not create a new iteration in Windchill. In some cases you add parts / resources to your structure with the intention to add positition in a later stage but if you use MPMLink to populate mbom, occurrencers are copied with position and then no manual change of position is expected. Trying to change the position of a part in Windchill, parent is automatically checked out. I expect a consistent behaviour where I'm able to follow up on who did what and be able to reverse unintended changes.

When a file is checked into Windchill 11.0 m030, the wcadmin account ends up with a Submit task in the Task list. I can only Accept, Decline or Reassign these tasks. I want to delete them!   How do I delete them? How do I prevent new ones from appearing? What do I need to modify in my Windchill setup to eliminate them from being generated?

Hello guys, is there a way to add multiple existing parts when modifying a BOM?Instead of adding one per one, it is allowed when creating new parts "Create multiple parts"But not when already createdCould you please help? Thanks!    

Ciao, anyone tried to compare performance or other abilities between embedded Creo browser engines IE and Chromium? It is driven by config parameter "windows_browser_type" and can be set up to "ie_browser" or "chromium_browser". Running on Creo 4 M060 with Windchill 11.1 M020 but see not much difference between these two options. What should I test/compare to get some meaningfull result? Anyone using IE or Chromium in long term to share experience? Thx in advance   My browser details are here

Hello, Is it possible to configure email notification sent from Windchill to email accounts of Office 365, inside our organization? I have been told that it is not possible, but I can believe it.

Greetings All,Looking for a good training set for ESI top to bottom. If you can point me to a resource for such training it would be much appreciated.Regards,PLM Solution Architect

Dear Experts We are using ESI TIBCO adapter for integrating Windchill with SAP. As per the documentation available, I understand that we can retrieve the following information from SAP into Windchill using the OOTB adapter Inventory information Part cost information Supplier information  Could you please provide some inputs in terms what APIs need to be called to get thease information into Windchill Thanks in anticipation Rajesh

Hi Team,   After BoM Transformation task is carried out, the Upstream environment displays both the Design and Manufacturing View items in the Equivalent Parts filed. Refer below attachment:   Also, note that the Preferences value for Display All Context Equivalent Parts is set to No.   Any assistance will be much appreciated.   Regards, PRKAC  

Hi,   We are performing some business logic on post-publish, in the delegate and in case of validations, need to send some kind of feedback message/alert to the User interface so that user is notified of the reason of any validations failures happening  in the delegate method. Want to understand what could be a solution to achieve this? if anyone has worked on something similar request to please share any inputs, suggestions. Would really appreciate it. Thanks.   Regards, Raghavendra  

We implemented the Rework option in our promotion requests similar to the out of the box template in 10.2. The rework options works great, as long as they don't need to change the collection. A secondary problem we've found is that often the promoter will forget they have a promotion in rework, and will create a new promotion request.So we end up with a brand new promotion and one that has rework data recorded. This leads to queue failures when it's trying to lock an object that's already locked in Under Review. My first instinct is to check for the objects being in Under Review. Though when the second promotion is started it's at an In Work state. You could only catch the failure on the original promotion with all the data. We perform a check of objects checked out already. We also have a terminate path as part of the Rework task if they find a duplicate promotion or need to change the collection and just can't move forward with it. Though, right now I have to play watchdog over the W

Is it possible in ProjectLink to set up permissions so that only the meta data is accessible as well as access (for downloading) to any attachments without suppliers having access to the primary content?