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One of my Users has been successfully using Workgroup Manager 11.0 M030CPS06 for months.  Today, the software will no longer open.  He rebooted his computer but that did not help.  No one else is reporting this problem.  He is reluctant to uninstall and reinstall the program due to the number of files he has locally that are not checked in yet.  Any ideas?  What would you do or try?

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good morning, i have a question: is it possible to start a publish job when users revise an object? thanks

I'm working on expanding our Change Notice workflow yet again. I have a situation I think will work (or is at least possible) but want to get feedback before going down this path too far.   At one stage of the CN workflow, there is a Change Manager role that will choose which downstream departments will get CN tasks for each particular CN. I've set it up using the Routing tab with a 'Manual' routing type. The intent is that the Change Manager can choose between one and four routes using check boxes in the assigned activity.   My concern is the AND collector at the tail end of these four routes. If the Change Manager chooses less than the full allotment, will the AND collector stall out the process waiting for the other paths to complete even when those other routes were not chosen by the Change Manager?   The other issue involves the Manufacturing-Engineering path (see image). If the Mfg. Eng. ECO Task has not been completed but one of the other paths does complete, will

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I'm working on a workflow to obsolete files (i.e. change state to Obsolete and move them to a folder that has limited access). One of the requirements is to also notify the users of the file that is being made obsolete. I've looked through topics here and it seems that the preferred way is through QueryBuilder. Has anyone done this with expressions within a workflow? I'm not having a lot of luck finding methods in the JavaDOC that seem like they might work. 

We've had our production publisher down for a little bit and it's come back up and is now connected, online and ready. While the production publisher was down the PublisherQueue1 got to about 4600 items waiting and ready to be published.  My thought was that once the publisher came online, it would just start publishing... that hasn't happened. How do I get the queue to start publishing? Right now it just continues to get longer and longer and the publisher, meanwhile, is sitting idle. 

Anyone have issues normalizing EMPBuildRule in a non WC2WC migration? The EPM docs and parts have both been normalized in this staging db and loaded to windchill. wbmldr complains that it cannot locate the EPMDoc although I can search and retrieve it in Windchill and the staging db?

Hello,   I have a read-only String attribute that holds some comments as text, that is aggregated during operation of tasks within the workflow. Every line is coded with eol (line.separator) at the end.   When I display the field in the details view (More Attributes Info Page Layout) or in the edit view (Edit Layout) then the contents is correctly rendered (multiple lines of text) line 1 line 2 line 3 But when I display the attribute in the Task Form in the Task Variables section (visible, read-only, resettable), then the text is rendered to line 1<BR>line 2<BR>line 3<BR> I've tried both the default Task Form Templates for 'Native' and 'JSP' which are documented to render to HTML. Both have the same behaviour.   Where am I wrong? Your help is appreciated! Harald

Has anyone successfully setup form based login with Windchill 10.1+?If you have been able to do it,  What is the expected behavior when hitting the initial Windchill page?The documentation is unclear on whether the web server must be configured to redirect the user to the login page,  or if Windchill itself detects no REMOTE_USER header variable and redirects the user to the submitURL location.Any issues with using Desktop Integration or Creo clients?Thanks,   Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,   I am having an issue registering a 3rd party application (SolidWorks 2015 SP2) with Workgroup Manager 11.0 M020. I previously had WGM 11.0 M020 working correctly with SolidWorks 2015 SP2.   For testing purposes I installed SolidWorks 2017 and WGM 11.0 M030, registered SW 2017, connected to the test server and everything worked fine.   I then uninstalled WGM 11.0 M030 and attempted to re-install M020 via PTC installation assistant. WindChill File System and WGM install correctly, but SolidWorks sits at "pending prerequisite." WGM 11.0 M020 appears to have installed, but when I open it and click "register new application" nothing happens. TIA

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How to restrict 1 login per user at a time in windchill. In other words I dont want same user to login from different machines or browser at the same time.  

Hi all,   there is a course called "Windchill Client Customization " on precisionlms.ptc.com. One of the first task/example asks to download latest BIF SDK (jar file).  But unfortunately the link point to empty resource. Any idea where could it be dowloaded from, or maybe somebody is able to share it with me.   regards Krzysztof

Hi,   I want to do a promotion request with API and it works with this: https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS133053   But within this request the process isn't selected well. If I do it manually the process is selected automatic, if I do this by API the process isn't selected. How can I add the process to the promotion request with API?  

Hello community,it should be possible to delete/disable/hide views (like Design, Manufacturing) having objects without performing a reassign View reg. CS24135If a view represents a plant which is no longer used but there are objects using this view already, you are not able to diasble/hide the view. In this case the view can be used but it is not allowed to be used.When creating a new View Version / Downstream the view should not be available.Thank you for your support.RegardsStefan Petras

The situation we are currently in is as follows.   1. PDMLINK 10.2 is built using SQL Server 20082. Customer will buy new server as Windows 20123. Plan to transfer existing data (SQL2008 & PDMLINK) after new server(windows 2012) is buy   So we have to back up the existing data and move it to the new server.What documents should I refer to?   There are also questions.1. When transferring data from the server, should the existing server and the new server be the same?Ex 1-1. OS environment should be the same?      1-2. PDM environment should be the same? (Product, library, repository, member, etc.) 2. Do I have to be in the same environment to migrate data when using SQL Server?Ex. Is it possible with SQL Server 2008 to 2008, but not with 2012?   Thanks, Warm Regards, SeonHo Cha

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.