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In learning about publishing rules, I have a couple of questions about Dynamic Documents and creating a rule to publish a representation automatically.   - Is there a way to specify a publishing rule that will automatically update/create a representation ONLY for a specified document? For example, can I (the user) specify if I want a particular document to be published? a) documentation suggests that the PE rules apply across the whole board.   - While testing the PE rules, I noticed that if I try to check-in a child document, the WVS does not initiate a publishing job for its parent. Any reason for this? 

Hi,   I have found the problem called "External ref. for feature/component not found, using old placement".  Based on the research conducted by my colleague and me, we found the root causes but not solution, the root causes are as followed (and it might be some more please do add, if any)   1. Lack of references to Main Assembly (Checked with the help of Tools -> View References) 2. As our company has migrated to CREO 4.0 & WINDCHILL 11.0 from CREO 3.0 & WINDCHILL 10.2, we are facing these problems.   Assumed solution: Review each & every assembly then check out the assembly, edit the references and Check in back to Windchill 11.0   Based on our assumed solution, it will take too long time to work on this particular process.  Hope to hear a best feasible solution.   Thanks for your time and help...!! Naga Ranjithkumar A CAD/PLM Engineer

PROBLEM: How to use SQL queries within the Windchill Quality Solutions product? (I'm working with v.10.0 running on SQL Server 2008.)SITUATION: Am tasked to create reports and graphs of some fairly simple data. I find it difficult to achieve within the WQS Reporting/Graphing structure. Example: Report Incidents that are not Closed but that are: a. Less than 30 days old. b. Between 31 and 60 days old. c. Older than 61 days. Create Graph of same. Should be easy, but is not.SOLUTION SO FAR: Go outside the WQS application and run queries on the SQL Server database. Am curious as to why PTC did not build the ability to do SQL queries into the application. Or, perhaps I just cannot find where to plug in the queries.Any comments or suggestions?

We have a requirement as follows : In the change notice creation process, we have the Define Implementation plan step. Here we have a Change Task called "Modify Affected Objects". We can attach WTParts to the task "Modify Affected Objects" as "Affected Objects" and then can submit the Change Notice.   Once the CN is submitted ,we need to validate the Affected Objects for some attributes and fetch the parts which fail the validation , then create a new Change Task and attach these failed parts as affected objects to the new task and the task must be attached to the CN     So to start with , we started with custom form processor that extends CreateChangeNoticeFormProcessor . In the "postProcess()" method how do we get the affected objects that are attached to ChangeTask ?   Let us know your inputs.   Thanks, Srikanth

Hi,I've worked on a project in a specific workspace for some days. No problems for saving modifications.Now when I open the workspace I find that all my work is lost. The workspace seems to be back in the original state when I started the study.It seems that some people already have this problem with windchill, kind of cache corruption I guessIs it a way to recover my parts and assembly or to investigate the cache files?Many thanks.Creo 2 M100Windchill 10 M040

it is very useful to use part configuration and part instance to trace the specific product in the service, but i can not delete the product data from the system once it is incorporated even it has pass the end date.has anyone knows how to delete the product from the system when it is not used in the service anymore?thank you

Hi folks,Want to add log out functionality (Cutom Button) in Windchill 10.2?

I know that a design can be managed using the wgm.the question is about the library.couldn't find any documentation about it.Creo Schematics 3 with Windchill 10.2 M030.

Hello, Can any one tell me how to deal with multiple tomcat apache server as windchill and thingworx is on single platform.

Hi All, I am trying to install Windchill 11.1 M010 on local system, but it was failed, gone through the log file, but not found any specific reason for failure, also no related articles are found on PTC site.   Please go through attached log files, Here is the error abstract. =============== 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.C:\ptc12\Windchill_11.1\PSI\installer\logs\PTCSOLNINSTALLER_PtcInstall.logC:\ptc12\Windchill_11.1\PSI\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.process(InstallModulesLauncherIaAc

Hello everybodyI am currently working with WPA and am very interested in start using the LCA tool but I do not seem able to have access to it, no matter what I do. Has anybody used this tool so far and has an idea on how to get access?Thank you in advanced!

Hello,   I'm having an issue in Windchill where verified family table instances are still showing the structure of the generic in windchill. Since these are linked with WT parts, extra components are building to the WT structure since Windchill seems to think that the correct structure for these instances is that of the generic.   Is there a way to refresh the structures for an entire family table in Windchill?   I have found that if I open each instance of a family table and save before checking in, that the Windchill structure of the instance reflects correctly in Windchill, however, isn't the point of verifying a family table that you don't need to open each instance?    Thank you.

In the Cad Document to Part Compare I have a question to what this screen is telling me.  What is an "Excluded" build status?In actual structure of the WTPart has nothing shown in the structure view.Thanks in advance!

We have created a report of Change Notices based on some custom types for our company.   When I run the report with a graph as an Admin, I get what I expect, and want.   A list of the results with a graph.   When I log in as a normal user and run the report the results table is paginated with 200 items per page and the graph only shows the results for that page,  not the total.   Any way around this?      

Orginally uploaded to the PTC|USER site and moved to PTC Community   There is no OTB method to directly select Latest Revision in query builder reports.  The technique shown in the following slides needs to be used.

Hi,   How am I able to add a download action button on the document page so that I can multi-select files and download to my computer.  See attached image.     regards, Jin Sin

Hello,   I performed a test CPS upgrade on a system copy and it went just fine and dandy.  Doing same on the production system failed.  This is the last error from the log that looks like it is related:C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\2\Temp1_MED-61006-CD-110_M030_M030-CPS11-Bundle.zip\windchill_11.0_REST_Services\InstallRestServices.xml:71: Unable to delete file E:\ptc\Windchill_11\Windchill\codebase\WEB-INF\lib\odataWeb.jar   I don't get it. It is the same path in both test and production.  Used the local Administrator account in both instances.  The lib directory has the same permissions on both test and production.  I have a case opened and await contact.  Since I see others have had some fun times with 11.0 CPS installs, just wanted to document this here.   Thank you.

I have been looking in to the containerization of the WindChill application. I want to investigate if someone have been able to run windchill in dockers or some other containerization technology. I have found some information that points to the fact that there was a discussion with in PTC about using docker and suggestions were made. I want to see if PTC would support such a deployment for a major partner like Roche.https://community.ptc.com/t5/Windchill/Windchill-with-docker/td-p/362411

Hi everybody, i'm lookin for a particular report in which i would like to search for a "where used" wtpart and show if it is affected by Change Notice. is it possible? thank you very much

I am trying to conduct some testing for a new document watermarking customization and I'm finding it difficult to test the watermarks against each paper size (A1, A2, A3 etc) and orientation (Landscape, Portrait) because I have no way to search our huge document archive by these criteria?  Is there anything in the index or DB to allow me to search by paper size/orientation?  I am working with PDFs.

I've got two reports I'm needing to build and it has been years since I've done anything like this. I assume I need to use the Report Manager (Query Builder). PDMLink 11.0 M030. The two reports are: 1) Based on a username find all the contexts and team roles the member is assigned to in those contexts 2) Find a specific members by role (i.e. Configuration Manager) in each of those contexts the user is a member of.   Can someone point me to documentation on how to get started on this?

If Anyone aware about  the WTPart Structure filtering based on Service Effectivity API's please let me know.   Thanks in Advance   Thanks, srini  

Hi, Did anyone go through this error before, when installing Windchill 11.0 and Oracle 12g?FYI, my Oracle Home User's password is okay.I am stuck on the Oracle validation. I am getting this error below.  Please see also the error, on the attached doc. "Failed to validate supported Oracle database software version. The current version of Windchill only supports Oracle database version 11gR2 or 12c. *Oracle Server Installation Directory (ORACLE_HOME):"Thanks,Eddie

Hello,I have a piece of code that needs to set a custom String attribute to specific values, however upon trying to set this attribute using the Persistable Adaptor I receive a Constraint Violation even though there are no listed constraints for this attribute on the Type and Attribute Manager. Are there any other unlisted constraints that could be throwing this?

Every once in a while in Windchill, we have items mysteriously created in a path that starts with \site and then some other folder.  Usually they are wtParts that this happens to.  Once this happens, nothing can be done with that wtPart except rename and set state.  It cannot be moved and it cannot be seen by users other than the one that created it and admins.  Does anyone know how this happens so that I can stop if from happening in the future? We are working with Windchill 11.0.