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When we set up our production system at Windchill 8, we built a state.rbinfo text file in the wtCustom folder structure, then used an ant command to build it into Windchill. I am building a new system and need to add a new lifecycle state, Searching PTC.com comes up with CS223984 (which is basically useless) and CS422321, using enumCustomize utility to directly modify the StateRB.RB.ser file directly and then run the ant MakeJar command.   Which method is best for adding enumerations to the system? I know the rbinfo file method still works.   Windchill 11.0 m030 CPS08

Has anyone ever use a touch screen monitor with stylus to red line a drawing using Creo View? Is there a touch screen monitor compatible with Creo View?

Database function or other solutions that can produce working days not just total days between Change Request Create date and WF Assigned Activity.Actual Finish date?         

Hi,      I want to configure Thingworx Navigate using Windchill Authentication . As per given in installation document , we need to generate two files Keystore.jks and TrustStore.jks. For generating keyStore.jks clear steps are given in installation document, but can not find clear steps to generateTrustStore.jks .Only one command is specified that need to be executed from command prompt. i.e.   keytool -import -alias testtrustStore -file server.cer -keystore TrustStore.jks -storetype JKS    but,    I get execution after execution as : FileNotFoundException : server.cer where is server.cer file located ?    Document I referred is : https://www.ptc.com/support/-/media/FE5AC01488FB4598830675518D74F7CD.pdf?sc_lang=en Page no 20

Hi,     I have "java 1.8.0_102" installed on my Redhat Enterprise  Linux-7.6 system. I want to install TW Navigate 1.9.1 on same system. The version specified in System  Requirement document is  "java 1.8.0_92". But I have higher version install on my system, so can I continue to install navigate with higher version ? Or, I will have to install the exact specified version ? Also Windchill is also install on same system, so Java Home is set to Windchill java path, So I guess if I changed Java Home path to some other version , then will it affect windchill execution ?  

Hi All, I am new to Windchill. In promotion request i have the subtypes. I would like to know how can i get the type of PR from Promotion notice persisted object?   Thanks in Advance  Regards Harini  

Hello,   We have a requirement where we would like to leverage a Sharepoint location for a Document and in Windchill create a template with Sharepoint location with like an excel file, Now what we want is, when New Document is being created in Windchill, The Primary content of the new document would be the excel file pulled directly from the SP Site, The intent is that some templates that are managed outside of Windchill wouldn't have to be managed multiple places, Any help is appreciated. Please recommend a non Customization approach.

Since our implementation of Windchill our parts and assemblies have been riddled with conflicts. We have now realized these conflicts are because, at implementation our start parts had all the User defined parameters checked "designate" even though only 10 have corresponding attributes set up in Windchill.As we try and fix this we are running across a large number of parts which the parameters WILL NOT stay un-designated.We uncheck the designate boxes on the parameters with NO corresponding attributes in windchill but as soon as you hit save it automatically checks them all again. Only on some parts and we have yet to find a common trigger among them that may be causing it.

We are developing a custom tool for SolidWorks using the SolidWorks SDK. We are looking for a way to checkout a drawing from Windchill from this SolidWorks custom tool.   Can this be accomplished using the WindChill Workgroup Manager ToolKit?   I am new to Windchill/toolkit and have been looking thru the online documents for a clear answer and have not found one yet.   Thanks, Ron

Hi Developers,   I'm working on ThingWorx 8.0.1 with Navigate View 1.5.0. I was able to perform basic REST Operations such as fetching a NONCE Token from a Service, Creating a part,....   I had to use the URI's that were exposed from windchill for these services. I'm a novice in REST services if there is any document or tutorials which give step by step procedure to create RESTful web services in Windchill side and use the same in Thingworx it would be helpful.   Thanks and Regards, Saran

I want to know if RestEasy framework for developing Windchill Restful Web services is still supported. This is still available in Windchill 11.0 version. What is the road map and recommendation of developing Restful web services. I recall WRS oDATA is supported way going forward however I think PTC is still supporting RestEasy framework.   Another thing Windchill infoengine tasks can be executed by wrapper server in Thingsworx ExecuteTask service. This method is deprecated in the future Windchill releases. What is the recommendation around this?   thanks, Preeti

Hi,   We have CAD objects that associate with the corresponding WT part when we check in the CAD object. In the WT part we have additional parameters, such as "Provider". If I set the provider name on the WT part, without having the "Provider" parameter in the CAD part, this information is cleared from the WTpart next time I check out and check in the CAD object. This is not good. Is there a way to maintain the association without affecting certain WTpart specific parameters?   For example a bracket that is made by three different machine shops would have 3 different WTparts, with different "Provider" parameters, but use the same CAD object as the source. So if I update the CAD I don't want to go back in to the different WTparts to add the Providers again.   Thanks

I didn't see anything on the resource for reporting page.   I have a few attributes in PDMLink with the type Real Number.  I want them in a report but the results truncate the values.  If the value is 0.092 the report shows a zero (0).  If the value is 3.55 the report shows 3.  Is there any way to specify to show a certain amount of digits?  I am using CAD Document.  Not EPM Document or WTPart.   The funny part of this is I saved the report and created a New Data Monitor to export to .csv.  That actually shows the correct values using scientific notation.  At least it's correct.  But I want the correct values in the report as well.

User wants to create a document and specify a review date.  The workflow needs to send out an email 60 days before the review date and the day of the review date.  The catch is that the review date may change after the document is created.  I tried using a timer to wait 5 minutes and then called a java method we wrote to see if the date had changed but that was overloading the workflow manager because of the volume of active documents.  I could drop the timer and implement a java loop until the appropriate date but there are concerns this would move the pressure to the method server.  Is it possible to send emails based on a date attribute that can change without pressure to the system?

Hello Sir/ Madam, I want to connect Windchill & Thingworx Navigate with each other. I want to fetch Windchill Data to Thingworx navigate. Could anyone please help me with this?

All,   I have a situation where we had two drawings releases, A & B. The changes were done concurrently. However, someone asked if another change can be added to A. Well, I pulled A up "as stored". No problem. Can get a print and make someone happy. However...ideally that version should be slipped into the iteration history - if anyone really cared - and they may not. As long as I have the print of the change, I can turn a blind eye. But I was wondering if it would be possible to slip that the A+ version after A and before B? This may involve some parts and assemblies? I have some tricky things I may be able to get away with. But...if there is a technique, please share?   Thanks,   Wayne   Creo 4.0 WC  Release: 11.0 M030-CPS13

I have a Project Access Control question for you to help determine if this is expected behavior, a defect or user error.   I did a cut/paste of folders and documents in a project from one branch of the folder hierarchy to another branch in the same project. The "moved" documents all retained their unique security settings (access control) from the source branch of the folder hierarchy. They did not inherit the security settings of the target folder.   Knowing this would be a problem, I changed the security settings on the target folder after the paste action to change all the content to the same access control. Even though I selected Propagate access to folder contents and Recursively apply to sub-folders, the pasted folders and documents were not changed!   I expected this work work like Windows or SharePoint permissions and update everything. Instead, it updated everything that was native to the branch of the folder hierarchy, not the new items with unique permissions.

Hi,   While publishing Process Plan I need to publish Reference Documents attached to Operations as well, but unfortunately, the system does not collect them. I have no issue with Describe Documents which are collected, but for Reference Documents, it seems that this functionality is not working. I have looked on ESI preferences and Distribution Target configuration but didn't find anything particular - all looks fine at first glance. Does anyone know if there is something that needs to be set up in order to publish Reference Documents? Some preference, property?   Screenshots attached. Windchill 11.1 MO20  

I can insert a single document against an existing wtPart, but need to add multiple in a single operation instead of inserting multiple documents and then linking against the wtPart.How can I insert multiple documents of the same type against a existing wtPart? Is this possible within the software as is, or do I require customization? If this needs customization, any pointers on API's would be great.

What is the best method for copying workflows, lifecycles and teams to new names at the org level? We are building new Windchill systems and need to take the default workflows, lifecycles and teams and copy them per the Best Practices so any PTC changes will not overwrite our modified ones. There is no copy and paste like other elements to make the process easy. Export and Import after editing the XML?    

I am doing a rehost and the file vault paths are changing.  I don't want it to copy vault data (we have already created stub files in the new location). Can I not just specify the fv path (source and target) but not copy the vault files? Here's what I would have in the rehost.properties file.   target.fv.required=true source.fv.hostname.0= source.intranet.com target.fv.hostname.0= target.intranet.com source.fv.path.0=\\source\Windchill_Vaults#staging.fv.path.0=E:\vaultStaging\vault1target.fv.path.0=E:\Windchill_Vaults  

We  are trying to load a contact to a specific Supplier.  I keep receiving the following error:   addContactToSupplier: Message: Resource bundle/Message key = com.ptc.windchill.suma.supplier.supplierResource/150Loader method com.ptc.windchill.suma.supplier.LoadSupplier.addContactToSupplier reported a failureNo objects were imported due to the error.Problem in export/import process.Nested exception is: wt.util.WTException: Loader method com.ptc.windchill.suma.supplier.LoadSupplier.addContactToSupplier reported a failure Erding data from file.data file = <e:\ptc\Windchill_11.0\Windchill\supplier_contact.xml,e:\ptc\Windchill_11.0\Windchill\supplier_contact.xml>map file = <null,null>token separator = <null,null>method = <null,create>user = <null>Command line = <{}>Problem in export/import process.Nested exception is: wt.util.WTException: Loader method com.ptc.windchill.suma.supplier.LoadSupplier.addContactToSupplier reported a failure &nbs

Hi,   Is it possible to apply option and variants concept for Documents?   In my case, i have 1 WTPart in overloaded structure with three different documents... Based on selection during variant creation, only one document should be available with Variant, Not all three documents.    Any suggestions would help me a lot. Thanks in Advance

I have created a wizard using attachments tags.   <attachments:fileSelectionAndUploadApplet/> <attachments:primaryAttachment>   I am able to display browser option on wizard. How to get that file on form Processor?

I am really struggling with Windchill's autonumbering behavior and its integration with Creo.  Even though Windchill was released 19 years ago (1998), it still doesn't seem like it's properly integrated with Creo.  What I would really like is to have autonumbering enabled, but optional, and not have numbers automatically consumed (in the database) unless they are actually used (by Creo).   Here is what my OIR (object initialization rule) looks like.  This should pull a number only when I don't manually name the Creo object something else. This works exaclty as expected when creating a new file in Creo.  No number is pulled from the database until an object has actually been created by Creo. Unfortunately this falls apart everywhere else.  All of these other actions will pull a number from the database as soon as the dialog is opened: Save As from Creo Rename from the embedded browser in Creo Assembly - Create New Object Assembly