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Would like to fully understand what are the pro and cons for Downstream View and Downstream Part. Does anybody us the mBOM productivly ? What methode do you use and why ?   Thank you very much Klaus    

Hello everyone, please tell me, can I output data from two tables if I make changes to the example "Pet" from the documentation? The example is completely repeated, but I do not yet understand how to use 2 tables from the database

Hello,   IFX catalogs and fastener data is unable to download to the local users machine from windchill.  We are running windows 10.  I am the admin and all the .dat files uploaded to Windchill are from my computer.  I have not trouble downloading if I run CREO in administrator mode.  But other users only get as far as Windchill writing the ifx_catalog folder and ifx_fastener_data folders.  The files from windchill are not able to be written to the local computer.   Any tips on how to get this to work?

Using IE, Once Edit change task wizard opened, I am trying to close it using cancel button (Red color X button) at the top right corner of wizard. But a popup opened showing message "Denied" and I need to click 'OK' button on the popup then only wizard closed. It is not closing properly once clicked on X red colored button.   MethodServer logs showing:: "com.ptc.core.components.validators.CreateEditValidatorUtils wcadmin - DENIED - Form processing failed, but no feedback messages given"   I also called super.pre-process();   but still same issue.   Please help!!

Preparing my users for an upgrade from Windchill/PDMLink 9 to 10 and want some feedback on a best practice. As part of the upgrade, all workspaces MUST be deleted before I do the upgrade.What is the cleanest method for the users to remove their workspaces? I have asked them to do the 3 steps below. As I was thinking some more, is step 2 needed for a clean workspace delete? Will deleting the workspace only cause issues with marking the files as being removed from the workspace?1) Check-in or undo checkout all files2) Open each workspace and remove all files3) Delete the now empty workspace

Hi,  In our windchill server, We got some Classification that use a defined "Tolerance Attributes" using the "percentage" unit. This "percentage" unit is defined into "Qty of measure menu" as "override" =  % into all Measurement system. Seems good at first but when we set a part with attribute tolerance lets say to: 5 to get 5% tolerance. When the part is display after the creation the Tolerance attribute is display = 0.05 %   I look into the documentation but I was not able to find a default unit equal to the percentage sign(%) is like that % unit is not standard but I can't find where it could be define elsewhere.   How can I get the % sign for the attribute but got the displayed value not divide by 100.  Thank you. 

Hi   I am catching up with the changes from Windchill 10 to Windchill 11 and one thing I came across is that it seems that PSE is no longer available on Windchill 11. I have been told by IT that when moving to the web PTC removed PSE.  I have found this very strange. However, the bottom line is that I cannot find in the interface how to start it, so I had to believe them. This said, I have just read the help files that goes with our version of Windchill 11 and it mentions to launch PSE in order to create advanced configuration logic. So this would mean that PSE is still available.   I am confused though as if it is available, why I cannot launch it and if IT is right and it is no longer available, then how do we do advanced configuration logic now. What's PTC plan.   Thank you in anticipation to whoever is going to bring some light 🙂   Best regards

Hello folks,Can anybody tell me how to export where used report in MS Excel format in windchill PDMlink? I searched a lot for this option but couldn't find.Thanks,Kiran

Hi everyone,   I was playing around with WRS 1.5 with the help of "Windchill REST Services User’s Guide 1.5", using SoapUI and a Windchill 11.1 M020 CPS05 instance.   I am aware that GetBOM might be deprecated in future, however my question might be relevant also for other REST methods. On page 166 there is written the following: Reading the Bill of Material (BOM) This example shows you how to read the bill of material (BOM) for a product structure. Use the following POST URI with the request body. URI POST /Windchill/servlet/odata/ProdMgmt/Parts('OR:wt.part.WTPart:44148884')/ PTC.ProdMgmt.GetBOM?$expand=Components($expand=Part($select=Name,Number), PartUse,Occurrences;$levels=max) HTTP/1.1 Request Headers Content-Type: application/json CSRF_NONCE: <Use the value from Fetch NONCE example> Request Body {NavigationCriteria={"ID":"OR:wt.filter.NavigationCriteria:186213"}} I used that example, without giving a NavigationCriteria (thus the Request Body was {}. However I foun

I have been looking around everywhere for a understandable install guide to get windchill and navigate working.  The problem I keep running into is that PTC kb has lots of different methods but none seem complete. If you use a combination of them it just seems to make the situation worse. Add to this that the configuration seems to change from build to build and after installing 8.5 something that worked in 1.8 or earlier doesn't seem to work anymore.  This KB is the one that i have followed with the most success. https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS247505 But now I'm stuck (for 2 weeks)  Authentication works. I can log in with windchill users. The Thingworx-IntegrationRuntime just doesnt seem to work.  I don't know if its the certificates, the CA certificate order or if its thingworx or apache? Is there some sort of trouble shooting method to get to the root cause? Is there "Picture" of how its all supposed to connect?  Any help will be appreciated. Tha

Hi We have an Excel application to download quickly (in batch) the pdf or step file from Windchill. We like to show also the 3D (Creo view express files) in an Internet explorer window. For this we have Author licenses. Although I am passing the credentials in the header, internet explorer prompts me to enter my password. What am I doing wrongly here ?   Attached snippit from Excel vba Regards Berny    

After creating a new Part Request, I don't appear to have the functionality to search for object type "Part Request". I see on the Windchill Help Center Documentation on New Part Request that an object type "Part Request" should exist, but it doesn't appear in my list of object types when I perform an advanced search in Windchill. Any ideas how to get Part Request added to my list of object types?

I am trying to remove large number of Projects with the condition that the Project is empty (no files in it).   Is there any way to display (maybe through a report) all contexts with no files?

I am setting up WGM for Solidworks and am getting the following message I REM The original installed shortcut uses the line below:REM C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe //e:jscript "C:\PTC/wgm\bin\uwgm_client.js"REM This script only sets the location of the workspace to a non-default location before starting the WGMset WWGM_VFS_PTC_PLACES=%USERPROFILE%\sw\WGM\Workspaceset PTC_WFS_ROOT=%USERPROFILE%\sw\WGM\.wgmset PTC_WLD_ROOT=%USERPROFILE%\sw\WGMset PTC_WF_ROOT=%USERPROFILE%\sw\WGMset PTC_WGM_STARTUP_DIR =%USERPROFILE%\sw\WGM REM C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscript.exe //e:jscript "C:\PTC/wgm\bin\uwgm_client.js""C:\Program Files\PTC\wgm\i486_nt\obj\wwgmvfsconfig.exe"C:\windows\system32\wscript.exe //e:jscript "C:\Program Files\PTC/wgm\bin\uwgm_client.js"    the resulting directory show a network icon for workspace.     Any ideas why I am getting a permission issue here, why it is a network location and how to resolv          

Currently we are using Windchill 11.0 M030 and client application Work group manager 11.0 M030 in Windows 10. From past 2 weeks UWGM Application is not responding when user tries to launch the client application   Work around: clean the windows cache and "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\PTC\Windchill Workgroup Manager" locations to make it work   Error The program uwgm_client.exe version 30.73.0.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed

All of our Creo parts & assemblies contain a string parameter called “DESCRIPTION”.  We would like to be able to search Windchill by the values entered for this parameter (and potentially others as well).  Ideally, we would also like to add a column to both our Windchill view & our Workspace view that displays this parameter and it’s values. Add column for model parameter to Workspace/Windchill view:(item 1.png) Be able to search Windchill for specific Creo model parameters (item2 and 3 .png) Please refer to attached images for items 1 and 2. Thanks.  

Hello, we are trying to add a custom servlet to the Windchill tomcat but we are not able to do it. So, far we added a custom servlet that can be accessed through Windchill like. http://<servername>/Windchill/servlet/myservlet/mybean But this is not we are trying to do we would like to access the servlet like http://<servername>/myservlet/mybean. We did everything like on the regular tomcat (edit web.xml, deployed servlet under webapps) but still the servlet was not found. Does any body has idea how to do it or can point us to the right direction?   Thanks, best regards!

Hi, When I want to open any site utilities like server status, visualization conf, etc. I'm getting an error: HTTP Status 404. I checked that these files are in jsp folder but they cannot be load properly.  Image of error below:      

Hi, What is the best way to notify a deadline? I use Windchill 11.0 and now I try to archive the certificate of calibration, and I would a notify by email 60 days befor the deadline document. I have try to add deadline to a task, but exist another way? Thanks for support.

Windchill PDMLink 11.0 M030-CPS11   Only a Windchill site administrator can edit a workflow template. Users who are members of the Administrators group at the site level cannot modify an existing workflow template.   Description Editing a workflow template. When checking the syntax of an existing block, the check is successful. When creating any new block (for example, Conditional Router), when checking the syntax, an error message is displayed:   ERROR : WF_EXEC_EXPR <adminPLM> -    compile - OUT: D:\ptc\Windchill_11.0\Win dchill\temp\WfExpression_<adminPLM>.java:17: error: '{' expected public class WfExpression_<adminPLM>{                              ^ 1 error   where <adminPLM> is the login of a user who is a member of the Administrators group at the site level   File with name ”D:

Hello,   I would like to modify the text of the Routing Options radio buttons to give the user more information about what each option actually does. I have put the information above in the "instructions" area (as seen below), but typically people don't read it. 😀     In my lovely mock up, I would like the Routing options to look like this:     I understand the the text is driven from the workflow Routing tab and I don't think it can be changed, but thought maybe some savy person has a solution.   Thanks!

Hello there,   I am having issues with setting the cache and workspace location in the workgroup manager.   I set the environmentvariables as follows:   PTC_WF_CACHE = %LOCALAPPDATA%\Windchill\cache PTC_WF_ROOT = %LOCALAPPDATA%\Windchill PTC_WFS_ROOT = %LOCALAPPDATA%\Windchill\.wgm PTC_WGM_ROOT = %APPDATA%\PTC\Windchill Workgroup Manager PTC_WGM_STARTUP_DIR = %LOCALAPPDATA\Windchill PTC_WLD_ROOT = %LOCALAPPDATA%\Windchill   The cache location is correctly set to the path in the environmentvariables.   However, the Windchill file system management sets the storage location for the workspace to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\PTC Environment.   When trying to save files to the Workspace using Solidworks, Solidworks tries to save to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\PTC Environment and fails.   Using the standard path in %USERPROFILE% is not possible. This folder is on a server. Using a simple path like C:\PTC\Windchill is not possible as we have several computers that ar

Hi, I have some problems with configuring SSO. I did all steps on this document https://support.ptc.com/WCMS/files/172779/en/PTC_Single_Sign_on_Architecture_and_Configuration_Overview_Guide.pdf  . I not sure about Scope, i did as on guide WINDCHIILL_READ. Is it right? At the moment i can login to thingworx trough sso but after I do changes in ptc-windchill-integration-connector and ptc-windchill-integration-connector-proxy i get this error   In Security log i found these errors:   2018-01-20 18:33:13.521+0300 [L: ERROR] [O: S.c.t.s.a.s.ThingworxSSOAuthenticator] [I: ] [U: ] [S: ] [T: https-jsse-nio-443-exec-4] [ Failed to utilize the SSO component for authentication ][ The requested scope(s) must be blank or a subset of the provided scopes. ] 2018-01-20 18:33:13.522+0300 [L: ERROR] [O: S.c.t.s.a.AuthenticationFilter] [I: ] [U: ] [S: ] [T: https-jsse-nio-443-exec-4] Could not handle request 2018-01-20 18:33:13.524+0300 [L: ERROR] [O: S.c.t.s.a.AuthenticatorExceptionHand

Amazon Corretto OpenJDK is supported for installing and running Windchill. Amazon Corretto OpenJDK is alternative to the Oracle Java SE. You can choose from Oracle Java SE and Amazon Corretto Java as the JDK to run Windchill. Amazon Corretto Java 8 is supported for this release.   You can refer to the Windchill Software Matrix on PTC.com for details of the supported versions. Or TS Article CS318019.

We are looking into installing PTC Windchill on a virtual server in the cloud.  Currently running 3 licenses of Creo 3.0, with a desire for some others to be able to view files. 1 of those licenses is at a different site and we like the idea of not having to maintain hardware and upgrades for this system. I believe the 3 big main players are Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Has anyone done this? Has anyone had issues with a given provider? Thoughts, comments, ideas?Thanks,JP