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When creating a versioning scheme in Windchill 11.0 m030, we have the need to jump versions. We initially create parts/documents at version A. These get revised to new versions up to a point where we decide to jump the version to version 0 for a production release. When I select the file for a Revise action, I am only getting the next version in my version table. It will not let me change the version to the numeric sequence in my version file. What do I need to set to get the revision box to allow me to select my next revision?

We use Design View and Plant View for WTPart.  and attach specification document to both views -- as design view and plant view could be different spec.When promoting the specification document to release,  it would collect related WTPart in the promotion process.  However, it would only collect the latest one revision of object --  i.e., not the latest of Design and Plant view revision but latest one either Design or Plant view depending which one was modified latest.  Even if manually collect both views in to promotion form, it says promotion can only deal with one version of object, and hence for me to choose between the Design View or Plant View. Obviously the users do not like it, as they can only promotion one view with the spec doc revision (likely design view), and have to go to individual plant view to manually attach the newly release spec. document. wondering anyone else having the same problem.

Using utility I am deleting primary content of WTDocument. It is deleting the primary content but in the version history of the WTDocument, column "Open Associated Content" is still having primary content icon. How to delete this or set it blank?   Code I am trying is - First Code - WTDocument latest = (WTDocument)wt.vc.VersionControlHelper.service.allVersionsOf(tempDoc).nextElement(); boolean enforce = wt.session.SessionServerHelper.manager.setAccessEnforced(false);FormatContentHolder holder = null;try {if(latest != null){holder = (FormatContentHolder) ContentHelper.service.getContents(latest);List<?> items = ContentHelper.getContentListAll(holder);for (int i = 0; i < items.size(); i++) {ContentItem item = (ContentItem) items.get(i);ContentServerHelper.service.deleteContent(holder, item);}holder = (FormatContentHolder) PersistenceHelper.manager.refresh(holder);}} catch (WTException e) {System.out.println(".deleteContents:"+e);} finally {SessionServerHelper.manager.s

All, Is there any method to define/set/mark specific wtpart/epmdoc so the system willnot create a visualization file for it either direct it to specific queue ?our  issue is that we're having some very large Solidworks asm/drw ( up to 25,000 items ) whichtake some times up to 2-3 hours till conversion is complete. this stuck the visualization queue. we are looking for method to solve this issue. we already having two workers that responsible for the conversion.   Many thanks for your thoughts,

Hi,   I got the following message when checking in my parts to Windchill 11:     Incoming attribute(s) MATERIAL ignored as they are not part of type definition. In Creo this is a designated parameter using the material.mtl file...   I went to type and attribute management>Manage Reusable Attributes... and created the attribute. Now the message is gone. Another thing I did is adding this attribute to my CAD Document. >> All info above I have found here in the community...   However, If I now want to generate multilevel reports from assemblies the Material column is empty? I made a customized Structure View where that attribute is showing... but no materials to be seen from my parts   What am I doing wrong? The attribute is created and added to my CAD documents but it is not reading it's content from CREO/the mtl file? Also, only working with CAD documents, no parts (as I don't know how to create t

Anyone installed the patches yet? I have two installations to evaluate, and more coming (I'm told). One item to evaluate is whether it is just better to do the CPS as opposed to the patch, where that is an option.  

This is a followup to this topic that I marked as solved.  Marked prematurely, it seems.   CPS-14 was successfully installed on the production system last week.  The customer reports that the security scan fails with all the same exact issues originally reported.  I am digging back in with PTC Support.  Also looking into the possibility of "false positives".  For example, one of the items flagged is for DB version 12.1.0.1 and another for version 12.2.0.1. The version of Oracle that is in use is 12.1.0.2.

Hello Friends, I need to validate MPMOperation attribute at Uses tab (Process Plan Browser Structure tab).   As I know, Data Utility can be used in case of normal Create/Edit Page of an object, where as same data utility can not be called from Uses tab of Process Plan Structure page. I thing it works based on GWT components.   Do you have an any other idea?   Snapshot is attached where am updating the an attribute.

Working with O&V, when a new variant is generated from overloaded structure, if a variant exist in the system with the same options, the existing part is getting selected by default at children level.    We require an option to select whether it should create a new part or reuse the existing part at different levels.  If this option exists already, kindly update us.

Hello team,  does anyone knows which are the capabilities of these specific windchill modules:   SPN-8003-F- Windchill Aerospace and Defense Module - Heavy User License SPN-8004-F- Windchill Aerospace and Defense Module - Light User License   compare to the: Secure Collaboration Security Labels Agreements included now in Windchill Advance?   Thank you!   Marta 

I'm wanting to delete non-latest iterations for our WTParts, WTDocuments, and EPMDocuments.  I'm expecting to use the purge command, but am open to other ideas.  We are running 11.0 MO30 My thinking is that by removing the 'non-released' iterations, I will be eliminating a lot of wasted resources. Im expecting to eliminate about 2.5M WTpart instances (a 25% reduction), 10.5M EPMDocument instances (a 50% reduction), and 250,000 WTDocument instances (a 20% reduction).  As a result of that purge, I think I will save many GB of disk on my file server for the documents and their representations. save GB of disk on my database server save time in any query because there will be far less records to process. My questions are this: Does anyone have reasons I should not be purging latest iterations.  Ie, the business will lose some important data somehow (presuming they are following some unexpected/bad data management practice) If anyone has done this, should I expec

Planning to move the Windchill replica sites to AWS but like to keep the main Windchill server running in onPrem data center. Any inputs or learning whether this is supported or possible to achieve.    Appreciate any inputs, Thanks!!!

Windchill 11 MO20 - Auto-numbering is turned on...and correctly auto-numbered SolidWorks CAD file attributes are being automatically overwritten in a specific context when saved...the CAD File name is overlaying the CAD Name. is this a Windchill preference somewhere? This is not the behavior we want. Any ideas? Which preferences/settings affect these attributes?   Thank you.

Hi,    I have installed Thingworx Navigate-1.9.1 successfully. I choose Windchill Authentication while installation. Its also configured properly. I am able to login in Thingworx using Windchill user. Its working totally fine. From Navigate also I can Search Part. But while using the mashup" ptc-connected-demo-mashup" , it fails to display result. When I checked logs it shows , [message: Execution error in service script [GetPartStructureByNumber] :: JSON Server error HTTP 404 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">_<html><head>_<title>404 Not Found</title>_</head><body>_<h1>Not Found</h1>_<p>The requested URL /Windchill//sslClientAuth/servlet/rest/structure/objects was not found on this server.</p>_</body></html>_]   Also I referred to ptc document Atrticle CS247505 , it is mention that, For Thingworx Navigate (it will not work with ptc-windchill-demo-thing).     Why

Creating new objects in Windchill utilizes an Object Initialization Rule (OIR) to preset certain object characteristics. These include the object number, folder, versioning rules, team for access and some others. The OIR is an XML formatted file that is used to define the object characteristics at creation time.PTC has specified certain rules with in WIndchill that allows customers to modify the OOTB rules for creating files so they can be tailored to each company’s needs and requirements. The one rule is critical in making the system work for each customer is that a lower level OIR will override a higher level one.Let me explain the hierarchy of OIR rules, which also applies to other default settings. When Windchill is initially installed, PTC loads OIR files at the site level. The site level is the top of the WIndchill tree. These XML files are instantiated down through lower levels, if needed. When installed, WIndchill creates an Organization level of files. This sits below the site

Is it possible to hide a parent object type but leave the sub-type visible and instantiable?   I'm exploring the possibility of using sub-typed WT parts for a particular project I'm working on.  For testing I've created two different sub-types, both with unique attributes.  (We don't currently use WT parts for anything else.)  When I go to create a new part, both the original parent WT Part and my two sub-typed parts are visible.  I'd like to limit the selection to only my sub-typed parts and not display the parent type.  If I make the parent type not instantiable then the sub-types disappear.  Is there some other way to hide the parent type, or make it not instantiable, while still retaining the two sub-types?  Maybe something with OIRs???  

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