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I would like to know how to get Manufacturer Parts using webject query and also the  Manufacturer / Vendor Organization for each Manufacturer part.

Hello everyone. I have experience installing and customizing Windchill, but I am new to Navigate and thingworx installation. After refering software matrices, I came to conclusion that Postgre and H2 are the only databases supported for navigate installation. But in my client location they are having below mention servers, so how should I tackle below mentioned problems/ address questions? Any reply regarding the subject would be of great importance.    Question 1: Is it possible to install PTC navigate 1.5 and Thingworx 8.0.1 when there is a windows server 2012 and MSSQL 2016 standard database in production environment? If it is possible how should it be done?  (Requesting for documents and useful links)   Question 2: Is it possible to install PTC navigate 1.5 and Thingworx 8.0.1 when there is a windows server 2008 and Oracle 11g database in test environment? If Yes,  how should it be done?  (Requesting for documents and useful links) &nbsp

How is it possible to provide access to Effectivity for users who are not Administrators?

Has this happened to anyone who has installed CPS12(see attachment). Thanks!  

Does anyone know a configuration or setting where you can block users (perhaps just Guests) from viewing document content from the Primary Content link and directing them to Creo View only?  We want to ensure watermarking is utilized but it the primary content is a PDF or TIFF, the user can simply click on the download icon and get the file from normal file download from the browser.  I know I can disable table views on search to make it harder for the novice user but I much rather direct all viewers to the "open in Creo View" option and this would trigger watermarks, etc.     I was wondering if taking away "download" rights still allowed Creo View to function where I can load a viewable but they were unable to download primary content directly. Or does disabling download also disable Creo View too?

I've been wrestling with this for some time and have formed some strong opinions on this topic. I would love to back this up with data.  To preface, my industry is A&D, low volume, highly complex, systems. We might build one unit for a customer and sell it (like selling the first prototype).  High ratio of tooling to deliverable hardware. The common ask is for faster change processes, less reviews, get to floor faster so we can start building.  The common solution is prototype process or new product introduction where the revision series (typically numerics) indicates prototype, not for production and that switches to MilSpec once we cross to a production review, typically with an advanced lifecycle.   Does this enable more revisions, less quality reviews and more chaotic design output? I am also a firm believer in "Don't track status by revision" so having an item at 3.1 should not mean anything more than B.1. This process also forces all items to go through pr

Does anyone know if it is possible to have a Configurable Link, such as Configurable Reference Link, allow a referenced object to be added more than once. I have a use case where this would be desirable so that I can define a different link attribute for the various link instances of a referenced (ROLE B) object in a given link.

I just started as a CAD Admin at my company.  I have a family table and drawing that was originally released as a - (dash) revision.  The files/drawing were then revised with a revision of F in the In Work state.  However, the customer print wants it at an E rev.  Is there a way to go into Windchill and reassign them to the E rev?? When I go to Revise/Select Revision, I'm unable to choose a letter lower than G (coming from F).  If I select enter, and put E in there, I'll get an error saying it's not greater than the existing revision value F.   If there isn't an easy procedure that I'm missing, what would be the workaround other than deleting the files, re-uploading them and setting the correct revision??  Obviously that is not ideal.

Hello,   when using the save as option, we would like to force a new number and a new filename with the new number. I found the options in the preference manager to inherit filename from number, but no way to force a new number.   Is it possible to force a new number? Or to disable the user choices "unchanged" for number and filename? See attached screenshots to clarify which options I mean.   Thank you in advance for your answers.   Best Chris        

Hi, Our company is making software which extends Windchill interoperability capabilities. We're setting up a new development server with WC 11.0 / SQL Server, and we're facing a very strange problem with WC properties.   First of all, we've to say that this WC server works. This is important to understand our problem. We can get the WC homepage and login with an admin account. The Windchill DS runs as expected, etc. We start WC through a Windchill shell with windchill start.   The problem is, even if this WC seems to run properly, when we call xconfmanager.bat -d <property name>, we see the given property has not been set. We compared with an other WC development server setup some weeks ago which doesn't show this problem, the properties are all well set.   And as this is an important topic to document our solution deployment, we're looking for some help to know what could have happened.   Thanks.

I think I know the answer but if I check in a part that has a merge feature or inheritance to another model, the default in Windchill does not create a BOM correct?  There would be a linkage between the two EPMDocuments (parts) but not a WTPart linkage. Just checking if there is a preference for this or changed in 11. Use case would be a casting model where you inherit features from casting to make finished model.  This should be represented as a BOM. I think my option is to create the BOM manually.

We think that PDM data can be shared externally as follows.1. VPN2. Reverse Proxy I have a question.1. Can I configure Reverse Proxy as one server?2. Can I share data externally through a network configuration without VPN or Reverse Proxy? (By way of allowing only specific IPs) If the second question is available, can you share it with me please?Please let us know which port should be added to the inbound rule and how to access only specific IP.   Thanks   WarmRegards, SeonHo

My company has a life cycle state of prototype and when an object is in that state we want the drawings that are being published to have a watermark of prototype. Right now I am able to have the watermark show up on the drawings when hey are published but it shows up on all life cycle states. Is there a way where the watermark only shows up on drawings that are in our Prototype life cycle state?

I want to know how I am able to compare two CAD document structures in Windchill 11.0. The only compare option I have is to compare the CAD document to the WT Part Structure or Compare two CAD Document properties.

Hello,   I am struggling with the default setting, which sets the CAD name equal to CAD filename. I use Windchill 11 M030 and Solidworks 2016 SP5.   In Organization>Utilities>Preference Management>Operation>Upload Operation>Upload>Naming Parameter I set the naming parameter for SolidWorks to the solidworks parameter "Description". But when I create new CAD documents, the name is still set equal to the filename.   Do I have to disable the "set name to filename" functionality somewhere?   Thank you in advance for any hints on how to solve this.   Best Chris

sDear All.    Could someone advise me how to create a relationship between a Boolean attribute and triggering an attribute constraint to be  changed to required.   I am currently setting up attributes in windchill 11.1 with cascading attributes    Thankyou in advanced Dave b

HOW TO ENABLE MODELCHECK GATEKEEPER IN WINDCHILL ?I found the below statement in ptc forum, but I am unable to find the location inside preference management. PTC Creo Modelcheck Validation—Specifies whether to perform PTC Creo Modelcheckvalidation at check in. The default is NO. Enables the PTC Creo Modelcheck Gatekeeper when set to YES.

I'm tying to add additional checks that will run before a user can complete the promotion request wizard.  These should validate that (a.) the user did not select themselves and (b.) at least one person has been selected for each of the promotion request roles.   I would prefer to stop the wizard from completing vs. trying to catch these problems after the workflow has started.  From what I'm reading, this seems to be possible by overriding the promotion request delegate.   There is a sample code snippet by @BhushanNehe here: https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/How-to-stop-a-User-selecting-himself-as-an-Approver-in-Promotion/m-p/144787/highlight/true#M17171   There is also help documentation here: http://support.ptc.com/help//windchill/wc111_hc/whc_en/index.html#page/Windchill_Help_Center%2FWCCG_BusLogicCust_WorkflowAdmin_MultPartSelectWizard_Sect3.html%23   I'm guessing I need to create a Java file, compile it, and then register a servic

Does anyone has PDMLink connected to an ERP system to exchange informations?We would like to export the BOM structure directly into the ERP.Anyone using SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft AX?Thanks,

Hello,   we experience an unwanted behaviour in Windchill. When a new CAD document is created and saved, the workgroupmanager shows the CAD part with the same number in the filename and the number attribute. See first screenshot.   When we upload the document, the number is incremented by one. See second screenshot. How can we avoid this? It is very confusing for our users, that the filename and the Windchill number are not identical.   When we the check in the document, the WTpart is created with the same number as the CAD part, ergo the CAD filename number incremented by one.   The goal is to have the same number in the CAD part filename, in the EPM document number and in the WTpart number.   Thank you in advance for your comments.   Best Chris    

Hello, how to duplicate a managed baseline. I can not copy / paste the objects of a Managed Baseline to a new one because there are too many of them. message: The number of objects selected exceeds the maximum number of objects allowed on the clipboard. Please select less objects to add, or clear objects from the clipboard, and try again.

I have written a custom task to fetch WTGroup objects belonging to a particular PDMLinkProduct. Following is the code that I have used:     QuerySpec qs = new QuerySpec(WTGroup.class); qs.appendWhere(new SearchCondition(WTGroup.class, "containerReference.key.classname", SearchCondition.EQUAL, product.getPersistInfo().getObjectIdentifier().getClassname().toString())); qs.appendAnd(); qs.appendWhere(new SearchCondition(WTGroup.class,"containerReference.key.id", SearchCondition.EQUAL, product.getPersistInfo().getObjectIdentifier().getId()), new int[] { 0 }); QueryResult qr = PersistenceHelper.manager.find(qs);     But I'm unable to return these fetched WTGroups in QueryResult using Return-Groups.   Does anyone know how to return these objects from the custom task?

Is there a concept of Precise BOM in Windchill like the one which we have in Teamcenter. Can the below scenario be maintained in Windchill   P1 - Rev A                                                 P2 - Rev A           C1  - Rev A                                          C1 - Rev B           C2  - Rev A                                          C2 - Rev B    

We are testing an installation of AutoCAD WGM - trying to work out the bugs before release.  We are to the point now where we can automatically create a WTPart structure upon checkin, GREAT!!! - BUT we are noticing that all BOM items are creating owner or image links back to the AutoCAD CAD Part.  I would assume this should work similar to Creo where there is only one owner link and all BOM items are not linked to the CAD data? Is there a setting someplace to fix this?   See attached.

Hello, I am new to thingworx navigate.  I have written a service where it pulls data based on part number. While executing the service. I get below error.   "The requested URL /sslClientAuth/servlet/rest/search/objects was not found on this server". Below is my code snippet.    var params = {type: 'GET',url: me.getRestUrl() + "/search/objects",queryParams: {'$select': properties,'$filter': "number eq '" + number + "'",'navigationCriteria': navigationCriteria,'typeId': selectedTypeId}}; var jsonResult = me.processJSONRequest(params);   can anyone please let me know what's wrong with the code?   Thanks, RPathan