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I have a document with a workflow that kicks off upon creation.  I want the workflow for this document to be able to monitor an associated variance for a state change, and when that happens, move the workflow along.   I don't want to have to enter a variance number as a variable.  I just want it to reference the variance that already is linked through the "Changes" tab on the document.   I was going to use a synchronize robot to do this - but not sure of the expression that needs to be written so that it can recognize the associated variance, and watch it for a specific state change (Approved, for example).   Thank you in advance.

Hi, I created publish rule for generating PDF files from DRW. It works on my local Windchill with no errors but on clients server, I have this error (other) in job monitor:   2020-01-13 10:33:56:Start Job: Other - s4456215.pdf, A.2 2020-01-13 10:33:56:make temp dir C:\ptc\Windchill_11.1\Windchill\temp\pubtemp\publish6171712364649683954.tmp 2020-01-13 10:33:56:"As Stored" Config Spec is available 2020-01-13 10:33:56:The EPMDocument As Stored Config Spec was selected as the default 2020-01-13 10:33:56:Start: Other - s4456215.pdf, A.2 2020-01-13 10:33:56:Authoring Application: Creo 2020-01-13 10:33:56:Creo Assembly Conversion 2020-01-13 10:33:56:make temp dir C:\ptc\Windchill_11.1\Windchill\temp\pubtemp\publish1083216001341765289ed 2020-01-13 10:33:56:Start: Other - s4456215.pdf, A.2 2020-01-13 10:33:56:Authoring Application: Creo 2020-01-13 10:33:56:No Processing Required 2020-01-13 10:33:56:End: Other - s4456215.pdf, A.2 2020-01-13 10:33:56:remove temp dir: C:\ptc\Windchill_11.1\Wi

Hi all. I'm currently working on cloning a Windchill PDM Essentials installation using the Rehost Tool. When I run the tool, I'm getting stuck in the LDAP connection with the message shown below. I've read a couple of posts and I've made sure that the WindchillDS credentials are correct as well as the baseDN. I also checked that WindchillDS is running by connecting to it from another computer using "LDAP Browser/Editor" by Jarek Gawor. I'm using the same information used in the rehost.properties file and I can connect to it and browse its contents. I can also run the ControlPanel file inside of the WindchillDS directory. The information on my rehost.properties file is: target.directory.ldap=D:\ptc\WindchillDS target.ldap.username=cn=Manager target.ldap.password=*********** target.ldap.baseDn=cn=configuration,cn=Windchill_10.2-M010,o=ptc target.ldap.hostname=************* target.ldap.port=389 target.ldap.scheme=ldap target.ldap.serviceName=<same as hostname> source.local.domain

Hi all, I have installed thingworx 8.5 version. thingwork composer is working fine but I am unable to open the landing page. even i am not getting landing page mashup?   below I have attached a snapshot of this issue.

PTC continues to enhance the On-Demand System Scan for windchill. After having added detections for Visualizations and CAD Interactions (CAD Workgroup Managers) in 2019, Windchill Diagnostic Utility (WinDU) is now supported. Whether for regular maintenance tasks, or in the context of an upgrade, use the On-Demand System Scan for WinDU in order to detect known issues from your WinDU execution outputs and get recommendations for your system. Similarly, before opening a case on the WinDU area, an execution of a scan can provide you with immediate remedies.   Note that although WinDU is part of the PTC Windchill product, for correct analysis of WinDU files for Upgrade and periodic maintenance related issues the 'WinDU' product must be selected.     As a more general reminder, the On-Demand System Scan service allows system administrators to manually scan their system files for similar recommended improvements on an ad hoc basis. Admins can upload system files to be scanned

Hello all,   I'd like to build a report that can be given a promotion request number and list the name of the promotion objects that have an existing markup.   I am not at all experienced in this type of thing.  I found a few reports on the resource page for reports here on the community sites that related to promotion requests.  I tried to tinker but to no avail.  Just don't know enough about the subject.   Could anyone share how I get the "promotion objects" list from a promotion request?   Thank you in advance!

Is there a way to prevent Windchill from accepting a check-in if the list of instances in the Generic being checked in does not include all the instances that were in the latest version?Is there a way to generate a message to the Admin when a check-in or check-in attempt of the Generic list of instances is missing instances there were in the latest version?

Hi,   We have installed PDMLINK and SQL SERVER on the same server PC. Sometimes performance is worst.The RAM usage of SQL Server is increased but not decreased.   So we want to set the maximum RAM usage of SQL SERVER. Is it best to give 60% of the server PC usage to PDMLINK and 20% to SQL SERVER?   We do not plan to add additional servers.   Thanks,    Best Regards, SeonHo Cha

Installing the windchill index search installation.  What is the benefit of each one?   Windchill Index Search Client with Index Search Server running in standalone mode. For more information, see Installing the Index Search Server in Standalone Mode.    Windchill Index Search Client with Index Search Server running in high availability mode (cloud mode). For more information, see Installing the Index Search Server in Cloud Mode.

Hello,in our application we are having some performance issues, there is a lot of users accessing our mashup and one server is having trouble with performance.We would like to use multiple servers with a load balancer to distribute the load. Could you please kindly provide us with pointers on how to achieve that if that is even possible? Do you have any other recommendations on how to deal with a load?(We have Postgres installed to a separate server, we are able to replicate the database but just doing that does not work as expected, in order to see the changes in the Thingworx platform it is necessary to restart the tomcat in our experience which is an issue.)Thanks a lot in advance.Best regards,Jiri

I am exploring various PTC products like thingworx, windchill,etc. I can found Evaluation version for thingworx but I havent found any thing similar for windchill. Please let me know if any Evaluation/trail version available for Windchill.

Hello, I have some troubles with publishing parts in windchill. I made a new workspace with new part and after check-in for all the time I'm getting status Job Failed. Job Log below:   Spoiler (Highlight to read)2020-01-07 15:39:22:Start Job: CAD Part  - test.prt, A.12020-01-07 15:39:22:make temp dir C:\ptc\Windchill_11.0\Windchill\temp\pubtemp\publish8584363550956990735.tmp2020-01-07 15:39:22:The EPMDocument Default Config Spec was selected as the default2020-01-07 15:39:22:Start: CAD Part  - test.prt, A.12020-01-07 15:39:22:Authoring Application: Creo2020-01-07 15:39:22:Transferring Files to: C:\ptc\Windchill_11.0\Windchill\temp\pubtemp\publish8584363550956990735.tmp2020-01-07 15:39:22:Number of Files (identified to be) Transferred: 12020-01-07 15:39:22:Creo Part Conversion2020-01-07 15:39:22:Added request to PROE queue2020-01-07 15:39:23:Job 96 submitted to worker: windchill-ecp.xxx.com-PROE:12020-01-07 15:39:23:LOGID: worker_22

Hi all,   We are receiving the following exception when publishing with ESI: 2020-01-07 07:55:55,967 ERROR [SessionThread-6] com.ptc.windchill.esi.tgt.delegate.DefaultESITargetProcessor - Error while invoking ESIResponseGenerator.generateResponse:com.ptc.windchill.esi.rnd.ESIRendererException: (wt.part.partResource/170) wt.part.LineNumberUsageException:wt.part.LineNumberUsageException: At least one component of "Component - xxxx, Name, Organization, B.3 (Manufacturing)" does not have a line number.     Line numbers are filled and the Enforce Line Numbers preference is set to No.    Any ideas why this happens or any ideas on how to fix this?   Alex 

Hi, I want to configure a new vault on my windchill server. When I click Utilities -> File Server Administration-> Vault Configuration browser doesn't open a new window(site) but trying to download file Vault Configuration.jnlp. How can I change it should be open in a new window not as downloadable content? 

Hi all,I am new to Windchill and also to configuring Windchill to have multiple MS and BGMS. I've set up a new configuration with 2 MS and  3BGMS.Right now when i start the Server Manager i get the following error: 2017-03-08 08:53:51,915 INFO  [main] wt.server.manager.startup - Registry created: RegistryImpl[UnicastServerRef2 [liveRef: [endpoint:[ch-s-0008278.ch.abb.com:5002,wt.boot.WTRMIMasterSocketFactory@1e240](local),objID:[0:0:0, 0]]]]2017-03-08 08:53:51,930 ERROR [main] wt.manager.ServerManagerImpl - Failed to create JmxConnectInfo!sun.management.AgentConfigurationError  at wt.jmx.core.remote.ConnectorBootstrap.checkPasswordFile(ConnectorBootstrap.java:570)  at wt.jmx.core.remote.ConnectorBootstrap.startRemoteConnectorServer(ConnectorBootstrap.java:374)  at wt.jmx.core.remote.ConnectorBootstrap.initialize(ConnectorBootstrap.java:281)  at wt.jmx.core.remote.ConnectorBootstrapUtil.initRemoteJmxConnectorInternal(ConnectorBootstrapUtil.java:97)  at

Hope someone sees this.  I'm in the middle of a production upgrade and because the production server is much larger than the test server, it decided it needed 7 method servers instead of one and so the upgrade manager is failing when it tries to start up Windchill since it has too many method servers.  What is the option to set the number of method servers starting using xconfmanager?

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