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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

Hello everyone, I'm trying to do the example from the documentation again. This time I do it in Intellij Idea. The code from the first page of the documentation was completely rewritten, the code is compiled. But when I try to compile java files from the shell, it fails. Screenshot and files attach.I will be grateful for any help and advice.  

Hi, everybody. I created an expression robot and put code in it Now when I create a Promotion Object, the process does not even begin to run, it is at the start. The error log is as follows:2019-12-11 13:57:44,237 ERROR [IndexQueue1.PollingThread] wt.queue.ProcessingQueue.IndexQueue1 Administrator - Queue entry number: 72107java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetExceptionat sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)at wt.queue.QueueEntry.execute(QueueEntry.java:231)at wt.queue.ProcessingQueue.execEntry(ProcessingQueue.java:312)at wt.queue.ProcessingQueue.execEntries(ProcessingQueue.java:898)at wt.queue.PollingQueueThread.run(PollingQueueThread.java:99)Caused by: wt.util.WTException: Error processing collectionat wt.index.IndexingServiceImpl.updateIndexer

Dear all, I am trying to perform a Windchill ProjectLink update from 10.2 M020 to M030 on linux server but when the process reaches installing and configuring runtime artifacts step after completing workgroup manager installation it fails. In error logs there is no proper information as well. Has anyone faced the issue before? Is there any solution for this?   Error: Installation AbortingThe following 2 logs contain information that may be useful for diagnosing installation problems. Include them in your support requests. Shutdown the installer before accessing any logs to ensure that they are up to date./opt/..../installer/logs/PTCSOLNINSTALLER_PtcInstall.log/opt/..../installer/logs/PTCSOLNINSTALLER_InstallLog.xmlThe installation is aborting due to an unexpected error.java.lang.Exception: Return code was: 1.at com.ptc.windchill.install.suite.actions.InstallModulesLauncher.run(InstallModulesLauncher.java:58)at com.ptc.windchill.install.suite.actions.InstallModulesLauncherIaAction.

For those of you who are using Windchill for CAD file management, and not using WT Parts, how do you handle communicating that one object has been superseded by another?  Do you remove all access to the previous object?   We currently use a pretty simple lifecycle template with only four states: In Work --> Under Review --> Released --> Obsolete   Permissions are configured such that engineering can see everything and those outside of engineering can only see 'Released'.  We've talked about setting the superseded object to 'Obsolete', but right now the only way for something to get set to 'Obsolete' is for an administrator to manually change the object's state.  Since changing the state only affects the current revision, setting something to 'Obsolete' actually requires setting every (previously 'Released') revision of the object to 'Obsolete'.  This really limits it's usefulness and why this is currently an admin only function.   I'm conside

Windchill License Usage Reporting Utility should be used to identifying License Usage Requirements prior to upgrading. Download Link   ** Pre-requisite **: All the security audit events should be turned on, few months before using the Windchill License Usage Reporting Utility. See CS208355 for more information.   Features: Only a Site Administrators will have ability to run this utility. Perform an audit of license usage Map users to specific license group Plan purchase of licenses Ensure license compliance

Hi All,   At the moment with standard Multi level BOM i am able to get the level numbers as 0,1 .... I am looking for an option where we could have the Parent number of the child part in the corresponding row when exporting an eBOM or mBOM . This will then be used as an input to Netsuite.   Best Regards Satish

There is a change from 11.0 to 11.2 in the Change Notice functionality that I need to see if anyone has figured out yet.  In 11.0 when I started a CN, there was already a Change Task available to edit while creating the CN.  When you edited this Change Task on the implementation page it would auto populate the Change Task Name to match the Change Notice Name.  Which is something that is a requirement here.  Now there is no Change Task, which you have to create a change task, which is no big deal, but it does not auto populate the name.  How do I get around this?  Do I have to create a template for the CN now?  But that doesn't make sense because that populates with whatever is in the template.

Has anyone out there running the After EDRLoader method run into an issue where when you publish Solidworks files the secondary content isn't attached as Attachments but instead as additional files under the representation?  I'm seeing files added there with portions of the name which makes me wonder if because it's Solidworks files that are being published, there's an additional _sldprt or _slddrw extension that's added on instead of the revision/iteration scheme and that throws off the whole process.